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• n  agitation resulting from active worry
  don't get in a stew
• n  food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
• v  be in a huff; be silent or sullen
• v  bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
• v  cook slowly and for a long time in liquid

• Off a sizzling political stove came a thick primary stew peppered and ready to serve the voters.
• The political pot was bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle.
• Better chicken stew than the old Brookhart boloney.

• fret
• sweat
• lather
• swither
• grizzle
• brood
• grudge

News & Articles

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• Letter: Where is the President?
  Where are the President’s speech writers? Are they on sabbatical? Are the teleprompters broken? With all of the alphabet stew — created by the IRS, the INS, the CIA, the FBI and now the NSC —the one thing Americans need desperately is an explanation of all these missteps from the Commander in Chief.
  June 14, 2013 - The Staunton News Leader
• Getting to know Neil Gaiman
  The prolific British writer offers a glimpse of himself — sort of — as a Sussex boy in his latest novel, 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane.' AUSTIN, Texas — In Neil Gaiman's passport case, on a scrap of paper beside his green card, are two verses of an unfinished work called "Pirate Stew."
  June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Photos: K-Stew's Mom Buys $1M Home
  Hollywood script director Jules Stewart, mother of "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, paid for a home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles for $990,000. The 2,308-square-foot home has a pool and spa, but is called "basic" by Hollywood's standards, says Zillow. TMZ reported about a neighbor's complaint about whether Stewart owns "wolves" as pets. Stewart said they are wolf-hybrids and got a ...
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News