Word: mately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been out in one of the whaleboats himself, that day in 1820, when the whaler Essex began to founder. Nobody could have been more dismayed than Captain Pollard when he headed back to his stricken ship. "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" he cried. And from Mate Chase, bobbing with other survivors in a small boat, came the laconic answer: "We have been stove by a whale...
...school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...wall. For celebrities and tourists alike, Tia Bates had an unbeatable formula: good American cooking, soft beds, plenty of hot water and a serene atmosphere. And when things went wrong or servants fouled up the serenity, the boss lady could raise the roof and cuss like a bucko mate...
...active day began with the "Macfadden Bed Exercise," in which each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was by then sufficiently limbered up for a "ten-mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high...
Although the Crimson will have only one sure place in the high jump, that place will undoubtedly be a first. But Bob Blake, a six foot two inch jumper in the K. of C. meet indoors, will not be supported by his indoor mate Fletch Hodges, who is ineligible for outdoors competition...