Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GERALD FORD. As in 1968, the House minority leader from Michigan will be the Miami Beach convention's chairman. Ford, 58, was mentioned as a running mate for Nixon in 1960 and for Goldwater in 1964. He and the President are close friends...
...section of London's East End where jobs and hope are in short supply. There Del (Del Walker), a 17-year-old welder's apprentice, picks up money on the side through petty thievery with his pal Roy (Roy Hay wood). The lads meet up with another mate nicknamed Bronco Bullfrog, whose recent stretch in reform school has given him some profitable connections. Bronco (Sam Shepherd) cuts the boys in on a job robbing a freight...
Humphrey made gingerly motions to the right last week. Contrary to an earlier statement, he said that he might be willing to accept George Wallace as a vice-presidential running mate. Such a combination would be highly improbable-whether for ideological reasons or because Wallace might simply be too debilitated by his gunshot wounds to campaign. But Humphrey clearly hoped to gain Wallace's 328 delegates in exchange for allowing the Alabamian some added influence at the convention...
...ancestors to the sea became inevitable, Morgan says, when "torrid heat waves began to scorch the African continent," killing off the trees and drying up the food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had a greedy and hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when your homeland's turning...
...Logos, people grasp for symbols of personal identify and some form of order for their lives. Several are pathetically familiar. One health-faddist coed wears a button proclaiming "CARROTS:" a liberal professor nervously skitters around the barren campus with an armband that reads "TREES." A studious team-mate of Gary's furiously memorizes the words to a long poem in a language he doesn't understand, for a course in "The Untellable." ("Knowledge of German was a prerequisite for being refused admission...