Word: brood
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...movie actress and novelist, encouraged him to become a naturalist after they met in 1967, when Scott was in his last year of philosophy studies at Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them as pets. In 1973 they bought a ramshackle 17th century manor house at Verlhiac, 100 miles northeast of Bordeaux, and turned it into a simian paradise...
Died. Diana Hyland, 41, versatile, blonde character actress who most recently played Joan Braden, energetic wife of Washington Columnist Tom Braden and mother of their attractive brood, in ABC's Eight Is Enough; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Since I've retired, I've had time to brood rather unsuccessfully on that question," he said...
...like slapstick. But it sounds, to anyone who has brushed against academe, horribly true. Paragraph by paragraph, vignette by vignette, Speedboat hilariously builds an unsettling case: truth is slapstick. No wonder attentive, sensitive people begin to go weird: "A 'self-addressed envelope,' if you are inclined to brood, raises deep questions of identity...
Adversity does not deter Ford-he has lost too often for that. In his senior year, the Michigan football team dropped all but one game. While he was the minority leader in the House, Ford was defeated time and again. He does not brood about a failure, nor does he second-guess himself after making a decision. His mind just does not work that way, and never has. He is simple and direct, and by nature optimistic, a feeling understandably reinforced by the experience of his own life. Ten years ago -five years ago-it would have been inconceivable...