Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomores Terry Flaman and George McManama each contributed a pair of assists for the Crimson. Flaman's running mate, Chris Gurry, supplied a different sort of contribution. The volatile defenseman picked up an assist, but also spent for two-minute sentences in the penalty...
...cliché. As a boy, he buried a cat alive, collected Nazi souvenirs, stole shillings from gas meters around Manchester. After early crushes on such villains as Josef Kramer, commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, and Harry Lime of The Third Man, Ian finally met his true soul mate in the Marquis de Sade-a literary encounter that Williams recklessly compares to Keats's stumbling upon Chapman's Homer...
...woman who thus advertised for a mate last week in the Czechoslovakian newspaper Vecerni Praha was asking a question that echoes mournfully throughout Eastern Europe these days. Everywhere in the Communist bloc the institution of marriage is in trouble, and the proof of the malaise can be read in soaring divorce rates and declining birth rates. In Hungary, which has the lowest birth rate in the world, 13.6 per 1,000 people, more abortions are performed than there are babies born each year. One out of every four Rumanian couples got a divorce last year...
...last election, talked out of pragmatism rather than sentiment. "Rocky is coming on real strong," Ashbrook has been telling his constituents. "The key is that Rocky is popular with most of the 26 Republican Governors while Nixon has little support among this group." William Miller, Goldwater's running mate, has also called Rockefeller the party's strongest choice, although Rockefeller refused to endorse the ticket in 1964. Ohio Representative Robert Taft Jr. says that "the most significant development in politics is Rocky's emergence...
...DSRV, or Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle, which will operate at depths as great as 20,000 ft. and be equipped with a pressure chamber large enough to handle four divers. DSRV can be flown to the site of distressed submarines or other submersibles, where it can descend and mate with an escape hatch on the sub, allowing the stranded crew to come aboard...