Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cabarets complete with B-girls catering to men who found it easier to get away from their jobs in the afternoon than their wives at night. Officials who frequent such places, said Aytona, "give the impression that they are morally weak, carefree, and are spending money beyond their legiti mate earnings...
...snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child in an accident with a rubber band). In that same second the snake bit Ken on his right hand...
...hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws of the jungle tribes...
Hers has been the routine existence of a careful housewife, a faithful, even timid mate, a concerned mother. Now, around her in the hospital, she sees too many examples of human ugliness-women near death who can still be petty, cruel, gluttonous and vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality...
Barnstorming through Nevada last February, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy dropped word at a press conference that it would sure be fine to have a Western Governor as a running mate. Nevada's Governor Grant Sawyer soon got the word. Sawyer's friends mentally crossed off those Westerners who plainly had no chance-California's Pat Brown (like Kennedy, a Roman Catholic), Washington's Albert Rosellini (Catholic), Oregon's Mark Hatfield (Republican)-and came to the logical conclusion that Kennedy certainly must have been talking about Grant Sawyer. As the Sawyer pride swelled...