Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between 750 and 1000 illegal refugees enter Palestine each month," Arthur Bernstein, mate of the blockade-running ship Chaim Arlossoreff told a meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Society last night...
Bernstein got his own training seven moths ago, amid tear gas and fire hoses, as first mate of the Chain Arlossoroff...
When a queen is ready to mate, she picks a sunny day and takes off from the hive in a fast, rising flight. All the drones in the neighborhood drop whatever they are doing and follow. The union is consummated high in the air, often miles from the hive. The lucky drone (who is killed by the experience) may come from any bee colony within a large area...
...Interest. This mating system favors cross-fertilization between colonies, but is hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...
Senator Pepper then described the man Harry Truman should pick as his running mate: "Somebody who subscribes as completely as possible to the views of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ought to be someone who can command not only the strong but the enthusiastic support of organized labor and the working people in general." No one doubted that Claude Pepper, friend of Russia and darling of the left wing, was looking in the mirror as he was speaking...