Word: mated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very well land in the gutter. Few believed he could win more than 10% of the votes in a fair election. But Argentine democrats were uneasy, suspecting a booby trap. From the provinces came reports that pamphlets praising Perón were flying thick as snowflakes. Handkerchiefs, buttons and mate gourds displayed his manly portrait. The Strong Man's "democratic" campaign was already under...
...week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
Author Morley's current team mate is veteran comedian Frank Fay (Harvey); last week Professor Brogan's was Banker H. W. Auburn. Asked by Morley on what date U.S. citizens set off firecrackers, Auburn ventured: "I should say that would be on this day when all the children come 'round and turn out your dustbins." Cracked Fay: "Rubbish." Brogan knew it was the Fourth of July; the British team also knew that cherry pie was eaten on George Washington's birthday, that trees were planted on Arbor...
...Jennings' experiments in infinitesimal incest have yielded valuable hints on the effects of human inbreeding. Last summer they also led the scientist to a surprising discovery. In his efforts to mate various cells of one variety of paramecium, he discovered evidence that the paramecia are divided into no less than eight sexes. Unable to determine the physiological differences between them, he has found proof that each sex will mate cheerfully with any one of the other seven, but rigidly eschews homosexuality...
...tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while she was singing in the Gold Strike Saloon in Alaska...