Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this was Seynt Valentyne's Day, when every foul cometh ther to choose his mate...
...Being an astronaut takes concentration and patience, and it can be tedious-just like football,"says O.J. Simpson, 29, who ought to know. The star running back of the Buffalo Bills has hung up his cleats for a while to play the space mate of Sam Waterston and James Brolin in Capricorn One, a movie about a manned flight to Mars. "I could never be a real astronaut and sit in that tiny capsule for days," declares the Juice. "I have too much energy." He likes acting though, and plans to try it full time when he retires from...
Frantic Search. Another problem: the scheduled cover story on how President-elect Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale as his running mate had been written by one of the missing, Reeves. Brady asked him if he could use the story. Reeves refused. After a frantic search, Brady settled on a piece by Syndicated Columnist Nick Thimmesch, describing how John Ehrlichman spent his last days before jail, which had already run in part in Potomac, the Washington Post's Sunday supplement...
...barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...
...populated with a standard cast - tyrants and victims familiar to viewers of the Late Show. Its captain, "Irons" Saul Pendleton, is a bit less bestial than the average; but the man-slaughtering first mate, Otto Lassiter, is one of nature's full-rigged monsters. The mate is more than a Caliban thrown in by the author for dramatic effect; as Hayden makes clear, such men were indeed sought out by captains, and prized for their lethal efficiency...