Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Debi Field, coach of the women's field hockey and lacrosse teams, entered her office on the first floor of the Indoor Athletic Building the day after Labor Day, and began exchanging; warm greetings with her friend and office mate Stephanie Walsh, coach of the women's swim team. The two immediately began discussing when Walsh and her team would be moving into the new locker facilities in the soon-to-be-completed Phase I of the athletic complex being constructed across the river at Soldiers Field...
More often, Berkowitz couched his strange ideas in vivid verbiage. Said part of a note found in his car: "And huge drops of lead/ Poured down upon her head/ Until she was dead. Yet the cats still come out at night to mate; and the sparrows still sing in the morning...
Richard Harris is introduced as a dumb fisherman intent on collecting specimens of marine life for sale to aquariums. In the course of his work, he carelessly kills a female whale who is pregnant. This turns her mate into a psychopath of the seas, lurking around the harbor of the fishing village where Harris does his brooding. Orca is soon wreaking much colorful havoc on the townspeople and their works. In the end Harris is forced to put to sea and fight like a fish...
...insight into male psychology. In their view, male displays and bravado-from antlers in deer and feather ruffling in birds to chest thumping in apes and humans-evolved as a reproductive strategy to impress females. Machismo is biologically based and says in effect: "I have good genes, let me mate...
...such male bluster works only if females allow it to work. Among many monogamous birds, a female will mate only with a male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...