Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense production, was nearly ended by Franklin D. Roosevelt's lack of confidence. F.D.R., who thought the Missouri Senator could not be reelected, tried to persuade Truman to retire. He refused, won another term and soon found himself, much to his own surprise, Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. As President, he announced himself as a friend of the laboring man; yet he once threatened to seize the railroads and install the Army to run them when faced with a nationwide strike...
...material world. Another supreme being emerges in Gnostic tracts: an abstract figure who embodies absolute truth and light and rules an invisible, heavenly realm. The lowest being in this realm is a woman, Sophia (Greek for wisdom), who offends the supreme being by producing a child without a mate; her offspring, a malevolent false god named Yaldabaoth, created the material world. He is thus an evil parody of the Old Testament creator revered by Jews and Christians...
...Third Mate David English, 28, of Seattle: "I had just left the bridge when the Cambodians started firing over, under and across our bow. Once they boarded the ship, they tried to round us up. But we still had pretty much the run of the ship. There were as few as six and as many as 40 Cambodians aboard at one time. They were young kids, a little ignorant and touchy, especially when they were shooting at the U.S. planes. They were no good at all at firing hand-held weapons. Their security was very lax. At one time...
Chaleff is a suite-mate of Don A. Nicholson '76 and Sam M. Wee '76, two students who have been involved with the Memphis, Tenn., dictionary-selling company's recruiting efforts at Harvard...
Nick was a veteran of the drug years. His jobs included: lifeguard in nearby Ormond until thrown off the corps for dereliction of his tower (he took long lunches); mate on a charter fishing boat; bagman for a big lettuce caper; treasure hunter for a load of cocaine left in the ground by dealers near an old launching pad near Cape Canaveral (foiled by a flash flood); and stunt car driver for a shoestring film that ran out of money. His heritage was Greek, and he knew all about fencing things in underground Daytona, and who burned down what restaurant...