Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent eight years in the House before winning a Senate seat in 1968. He has a reputation as an adroit legislative craftsman and a fierce competitor. His biting wit is legendary, but the vituperative remarks that earned him the "hatchet man" label as Gerald Ford's 1976 running mate are rare now. More typical is the comment he made last week when his wife presented him with a congratulatory schnauzer named Leader. Deadpanned Dole: "It's an indication of where my leadership is going. Housebroken but not Senate-broken...
...live along its banks. He shows his love by a flow of stories, like the one about the old man who used to blow a bugle whenever the Peckinpaugh passed, or the one about the elderly woman who still stands at her kitchen window and waves. His first mate, Stewart Gunnlaugsson, chimes in with stories of fogs that can blot out the canal's marker buoys and make navigation impossible and lock keepers who bring the Peckinpaugh's crew up to date on the news as they pass through. "Canal people are like a family," he says...
...quickest description of the new people, Democratic and Republican alike, was "the baby-boom generation." When the veterans of the "good war" of 1941-45 came home, nature worked its seduction on them. The first command of nature was to find a mate, then to find a job, then a home, preferably in the suburbs, where they could raise children. The result of the mating urge was a biological explosion. From a national birth rate of 18.8 per thousand before the war, the youngsters pushed the number up to 26.6 per thousand in 1947. There were 2.4 million babies...
...apologize for the lipstick smears left on babies held up for campaign busses. She was probably the least-known candidate chosen for the No. 2 spot on a major party ticket since Barry Goldwater picked another relatively obscure New York House member, William Miller, as his running mate in 1964. Unlike Miller, however, Ferraro became an overnight sensation who frequently eclipsed the presidential nominee, both in excitement and controversy. Indeed, such were the emotional ups and downs of her race that near its end Ferraro admitted that she probably would not have stepped into her niche in history...
...beautiful, solitary cape and espies a beautiful, solitary sunbather, beginning "The Adventure of the Reader." The summertime pas de deus between the two would be a textbook Harlequin romance, except Amadeo is reading a different book, one more interesting than the pedestrian sexual encounter that his beach mate wants to create with...