Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question on its cover: "And for Vice President... Why Not a Woman?" Last week the Democrats answered it resoundingly. It was obviously a question the nation was prepared to address as, for several increasingly intense weeks, it waited and watched while Walter Mondale pondered his choice of a running mate...
...exhausting primary campaign is a fading memory, and his coronation as Democratic presidential nominee is at hand. It is his golden chance to get the drive against Ronald Reagan off to a rousing start by performing crisply some of the normally pleasant rituals of leadership: selecting a running mate, pulling the party together for the fall campaign, writing the script for the convention that next week will surely hand him the nomination he has so long sought...
...when the spirit moves him. Indeed, one of Mondale's minor problems is that his own acceptance speech Thursday night might sound a bit tame after the performances of Cuomo, Jackson and Kennedy. Mondale may ask a woman to introduce him, especially if he has chosen a male running mate and needs a show of solidarity from the women who will constitute slightly fewer than half of all the convention delegates...
...advisers badly miscalculated how much feminist pressure he would inspire with his overtures to prospective women candidates. Not only did NOW threaten a floor fight, Goldsmith went so far as to talk of winning ?one. The realization spread that a ? pitched battle over Mondale's run-Sning mate would create a disastrous impression of a presidential candidate incapable of controlling his own party. The 23 women who journeyed to Minnesota to meet Mondale last Wednesday assured him they intended no such thing...
...shovels cannot keep him in sight. Texas horned toads can, when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay a week or more until her new shell is grown...