Word: brooding
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Into this desiccated shell of a man blows an outlandish wind of salvation, a rickety truck full of outcasts who make the Joads seem like landed gentry. Duck Bexley is the woebegone father of a brood of five; his wife Elizabeth is pregnant with the sixth. Bexley earned his name from a father who thought that trouble fell off him as water off a duck; in truth it clings to him like fresh tar from a hot summer road. In Korea, he won a Bronze Star for annihilating 44 Chinese trapped in a ravine. Their ghosts haunt...
Winter, however, is not the only grave matter that the New Hampshireman finds to brood about in the gentle weeks that follow the summer solstice. True, the presidential campaign is not a matter for concern. We did our best in the New Hampshire primary to warn the nation of the perils that lay ahead, by picking Carter and Reagan. If the nation went ahead and picked Carter and Reagan anyway, despite our effort to sound the alarm, that is no business of ours...
Moving awkwardly on all fours, knuckles bent, they were ungainly creatures on the ground and also extremely vulnerable. Barely 3 ft. high, unable to see over the tall grass, Rama suddenly found himself and his brood confronted by a snarling saber-toothed tiger. What...
They did agree to doctor it a bit. The new script avoids calling Jews Frevlerbrut (a sacrilegious brood) or verblendetes Volk (a deluded people). And when the mob shouts for Barabbas, a few Jews also cry for Jesus' release. Cruelty and vindictiveness are displayed by the loutish Roman soldiery as well as Jews...
...tournament practice," the sixth of ten levels, the Challenger is supposed to average three minutes of thought for each move, but in dodgy situations it will brood for 15 minutes or so, and the human player may well choose to spend his time worming the dog or writing a threatening letter to the telephone company. The machine itself does not yet have a dog or a typewriter, and it becomes impatient within a couple of minutes when its opponent is thinking. Then it says, gruffly, "Enter-your-move." There is a useful voice turn-off button for such moments. Except...