Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dale's Tale. In Richmond Ind., the parents of Dale Allen Hawley, aviation machinist's mate, received a letter from him : "After leaving where we were before we left for here, not knowing we were coming here from there, we couldn't tell whether we had arrived here or not. . . .The weather here is just as it always is at this season. The people are just like they look. I had better close now before I give too much valuable military information...
...That Way, purring the words: "I'm not much to look at, nothin' to see." "Oh, Frankie, yes you are!" wailed the audience. The song over, Sinatra started to leave the stage. "Don't go!" whimpered the little girls. He gave them an encore, mooned: "The mate that fate had me created for." Thereupon a delegation of them rose, whinnying: "Here I am, Frankie!" "Frankie, look at me!" The band had to play the Star-Spangled Banner to get him off the stage...
...general tried to follow printed journalism's tradition of a free press. But there has been constant trouble. Commentators can and often do convey their own feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...
...connecting the eye and the brain) is cut, the animal will change its breeding season. He also found that the intensity of light seems to make little difference; what counts is its duration. The pituitary gland apparently is also stimulated by color: red light, for example, moves starlings to mate more than any other...
Last week the Navy gave him a clerical jumping-mate. Assigned to the same training was Chaplain Ralph Everett Tupper, 34-year-old former pastor of South Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass...