Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foster, along with running mate Al Weston, ran the UConn fastbreak all evening. Foster constantly penetrated the Harvard defense for a medium range jumpshot or a drive to the basket...
...careful, buying a stereo can be a lot like finding a mate: you can spend much time shopping around, take what looks best, and then, once home, discover you're stuck with a lemon...
...women of superior intelligence intermarried only among themselves, the dire consequence would be indeed as Herrnstein predicts--a hereditary, intelligent elite far removed from a much larger pool of undistinguished and anonymous persons. However Herrnstein ignores entirely the known history and scientific studies showing that highly intelligent persons usually mate with persons with other qualities and that consequently intelligence tends constantly to equalize in the population. As is well known, successive generations of once-outstanding families return, sometimes gradually but sometimes quite abruptly, into the anonymity of the general pool; conversely, outstanding individuals regularly emerge from quite ordinary families...
...west bank of the canal. There were ominous intelligence reports that the Soviets were resupplying the Egyptian Second Army, which is sitting in Sinai north of the Israeli-encircled Third. There were also reports, which Washington doubled, that the Soviets were shipping nuclear warheads into the area to mate them to the 200-mile-range "Scud" ground-to-ground missiles already in Egypt...
Playing under tremendous time pressure, Frankle blundered badly in his third game. "I could have been forced into a mate at one point," Frankle said. "I ran out of time, my [clock] flag dropped...