Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rising to respond, Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark, stern-faced and methodical, ticked off her evidence, piece by piece. The glove at the crime scene. Its mate on Simpson's path. The blood trails to Simpson's house. The Ford Bronco with traces of blood. That's how circumstantial evidence works. Put him on trial...
...heard the story already, no doubt. Mufasa, a feared but well-liked ruler, his mate Sarabi and their son Simba live together in the seemingly harmonious land of Pride Rock. There's something rotten in the kingdom, though--Mufasa's brother Scar, the younger sibling simply green-eyed (literally) with jealousy of his brother's power...
...study showing that women who don't smoke but live with a spouse who does, run a 30 percent greater risk of getting lung cancer than women in a smoke-free household. The research effort, the largest of its kind, also found that the more the mate smoked, the greater the risk for the woman. But even women without a smoking spouse increase their chances of lung cancer through exposure to secondhand smoke at work or in social settings, the study found...
...Danforth Quayle has a funny way of introducing himself. Last time around, he presented his little-known face to America on a hot New Orleans afternoon in 1988, just hours after Vice President George Bush announced that he would choose the junior Senator from Indiana as his running mate. The news, which stunned even Bush's top aides, had hardly sunk in when a hyperexcited Quayle threw an arm around Bush's shoulders during a riverboat rally later that day and shouted, "Go get 'em!" The inelegance of the moment set the tone for things to come...
...certainly Warren's plan, and all the California delegates, including Nixon, were pledged to back him. In some complicated maneuvering, though, the Eisenhower forces put forward a resolution that would give them a number of disputed Southern delegations. Nixon, who had already been sounded out as a running mate for Eisenhower, persuaded the California delegates to back this resolution, and so Eisenhower won. Warren never forgave Nixon for what he considered a betrayal...