Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West German concerns in Brussels. Throughout his 40-hour stay, Bush sought to reassure Thatcher that she had not been eclipsed by Continental interests. Though it is unlikely that she will have as much influence with the cautious, pragmatic Bush as she did over Ronald Reagan, an ideological soul mate, the two found themselves in agreement on just about everything they discussed...
Although Republicans are a daunting 184 votes short of a majority in the 435-seat House, Gingrich has his sights trained on a full-fledged G.O.P. takeover. Working with his political soul mate, Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater, he also wants to see his party recapture the Senate, as well as statehouses and city halls all over the nation. But unlike Atwater, whose blues-playing, guitar-strumming sideswipes can be entertaining, Gingrich approaches his mission with a humorless holier-than-thou style that makes him easy to dislike...
...days after a 16-in. gun turret blew up on April 19 during practice firing on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly...
...Rawl fielded questions, the National Transportation Safety Board continued a week of investigative hearings into the spill. The board disclosed new evidence that the tanker's captain, Joseph Hazelwood, had at least two drinks in the hours before the accident. James Kunkel, the ship's chief mate, described the terrifying moments after the ship hit the reef. "I feared for my life," Kunkel said. "I wondered if I would see my wife again...
Across a parcel of scorched landscape, a pair of male ground squirrels are enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time...