Word: broods
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Throughout the college application process four years ago, Moore was unfazed by any pressure to continue the family tradition of playing for the Crimson set by his two older brothers. The eldest Moore, Mark ’00, had paved the way for the brood from Ontario to Cambridge and middle brother Steve ’01 was the Crimson captain two years...
...interested in using her husband's private taxi service while I'm in Ji'an, or if I would speak a few words in English to her young son. It seems the contingencies of everyday life in a rapidly modernizing China have left the Kwanggaet'o stela to brood alone over its heavy past...
...iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That the Bronfman family is a cunning brood, who in selling Seagram to Messier managed the equivalent of selling a Mercedes for $100,000 and, if all goes well, buying it back two years later for $20,000. An $80,000 profit, and they still have the car - all tuned up, to boot. Bravo, wise guys. • That...
...colorful solar system seemed like one of a cosmic kind. The planet club became a little less elite last week, however, when astronomers announced the discovery of a Jupiter-like world orbiting a not-too-distant star, a star that could well have an Earth-like planet in its brood...
When Qawasmeh isn't taking care of the girls at school, she is ministering to her own six children at home. At night they wake her with their nightmares. Last month she calmed her 11-year-old, Doa, the most fearful of her brood, when the girl awoke crying. "What's the worst thing that could happen to you?" Qawasmeh asked. "To be martyred," Doa sniffled. "What happens to martyrs?" her mother asked. Wiping her eyes, Doa thought a moment. "They go to heaven," she said, and then she smiled...