Word: mated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the insects have paired, they mate openly on tree trunks and branches, without regard for the fact that they can easily be picked off and eaten by predators or squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next...
...family, though. Charlie must cover up one of Irene's boo-boo's--an unintentional murder in a kidnaping/killing job they did together. Unfortunately for both of them, this also means covering up Irene (with six feet of dirt). Irene is no dummy, though, and quickly understands that her mate is out for her life...
Seaver found his pace gently, indicating his pitch selection with measured flicks of his gloves. He would signal his fastball with a quick jerk, his curve with a sweeping gesture. All the time his battery mate was stoic, chewing his tobacco carefully, with respect...
...loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature. In perhaps his least anticipated experience, he meets an age mate smarter than he is, not only in literary learning but in his grasp of human nature...
...securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before he settled down with a more appropriate mate. The woman he marries is kept in figurative purdah ("She is my private love, not for publication"), though he pulls back the screen when it suits...