Word: mated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to a question on who the Massachusetts governor would choose to be his running mate, Estrich said "to talk about the vice presidency in any more detail would be premature... We will be spending most of our time working" to round up the necessary delegates...
...Whatever happens, don't blame yourself for hurting the feelings of your old mate. "A gentleman," as the omniscient Salada Tea Bags-maker correctly suggests, "never hurts someone unintentionally." But he does hurt someone occasionally...
...Georgia Senator Sam Nunn onto the ticket by offering to make him Secretary of Defense as well as Vice President. That unorthodox approach would compensate for Dukakis' lack of expertise in national security affairs, but it would be a confession of weakness on his part. A choice for running mate is supposed to welcome the invitation without imposing large conditions...
...give a public reading, I often choose Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven," which is a poem of its own kind, and has | no mate in English literature. The first six stanzas are semiserious, semicomical, but I always read the last stanza with caution, in case my voice should break...
...before you prop up the Shriver case as a precedent to a Jackson nomination, there are some facts to consider. Shriver received the nod from McGovern only after his initial running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had been forced to withdraw his name. Reporters had discovered that Eagleton had received shock treatments for emotional disorders...