Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday: I think I'm dividing all the girls into two categories: Those I love and those I don't. The instincts to pick one and mate are very strong. Equally strong are the fears that once I've established any kind of sexual relationship with one girl, all the others will write me off as lost. A fantasy perhaps, but one which is shared by many of my comrades...
That instant of military glory unalloyed was the last in the nation's memory. The horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki accompanied the defeat of Japan. Korea turned into an unpopular, slogging stale mate. Viet Nam has divided the nation and stained the military's proud escutcheon...
...been not so much what to run for as where. In Illinois, where he managed Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart and courted his daughter Eunice, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has frustrated Shriver's political ambitions more than once. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey wanted Shriver for his running mate, but he dropped the idea when the Kennedy family proved unenthusiastic. Shriver's in-laws-Ethel, among them-were even cooler when he more recently thought of running for Bobby Kennedy's old Senate seat in New York...
...mixed load of 500-lb. and 750-lb. preassembled napalm bombs consigned to U.S. Air Force units in Thailand. Secured on deck were 50 tons of live detonators. While the men, some in their skivvies, were tearing at the lifeboat covers and at work on the davits, Second Mate Robert Stevenson called to the bridge: "Is this for real?" Third Mate Herbert Gunn shouted down: "Cast off and stand clear. There's a live bomb aboard...
...familiar tactics of confrontation to the chess board; as the game progresses, a paddy wagon may remove a hippie, and a guru may outmaneuver a tactical patrolman. The chess set, created by a local artist, Jackie Pearl, has one major drawback: only the Establishment can afford the check, mate. It costs...