Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northwest, the treaty broadened a vista that first opened in 1792, when Captain Robert Gray, fur trader from Boston, steered the schooner Columbia past the dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction...
Last week's spectators at the Orlando paid $6 just to get into the arena, anted up another $5 if they wanted reserved seats down front. With avid concentration, they followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
Asked whether he thought Dick Nixon could have won the election with a Roman Catholic as a running mate, outgoing Secretary of Labor (and an announced Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey) James P. Mitchell, himself a Catholic, replied: "Yes. And so does...
...That done, Wagner could make the race for re-election this year, with Felt as his running mate and reform support, and probably win. The plan calls for him to step down soon after, leaving his job to Felt and plucking for himself a ripe Kennedy ambassadorship (rumored: Ireland or Israel) or a new Cabinet post (rumored: Secretary of Urban Redevelopment). As a leading reform Democratic officeholder said: "Wagner is neither a strong man nor a decisive person. A federal appointment is logical...
Howell's former mate, Dave Crosby, will return to left wing, where he skated last year, on a line with Crocker Snow and center Stew Forbes. The rest of the lineups will remain as they were in the first three games, although Bob Bland's starting position in the goal is being challenged by Godfrey , who just might see action one of these days...