Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person to make us make the hard choices." Australians face the first such choice this week as they determine whether Hawke's challenge is indeed prodigious, or simply presumptuous...
Traditionally, it is couples, not generations, that have their songs. Rick and Ilsa would put themselves in a trance by getting Sam to sing As Time Goes By in Casablanca. Sometimes we have more than one special song, or a different song for a different mate or a different archaeological layer of our lives...
Sweeney, trailing line mate David Livingston's breakaway early in the second stanza, scored on the rebound to make it 4-1 Several minutes later, the Huskies missed their last real opportunity for a rally when they failed to score, despite numerous good chances, on a power play...
...Neil was on the ice for the decisive overtime goal, and was pictured in a widely-reprinted photo smashing his stick across the goalposts in anger after the winning goal. Now, with the BC offense pouring it on, he zoomed up the middle, took a pass from line mate Scott Harlow and slammed the disc past Davidner for the Eagles' final goal of the night...
Schweiker served for 20 years as a Congressman and Senator from Pennsylvania and was Reagan's vice-presidential running mate in 1976. A staunch advocate of basic medical research, he successfully defended the National Institutes of Health and the Public Health Service against cuts proposed by the Office of Management and Budget...