Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home their progeny at summer's end, they didn't immediately appreciate the value of staying up all night to watch the sun rise before launching into pre-breakfast Brandenburg Concertos. Other things parents didn't dig: hazy evidence that junior might have spent most evenings with a bed mate and explanations for why the Kenne police might be calling to follow up on the night John forgot his driver's license. But the best way to give the old folks a chuckle and a sense of the sprit of Pear Valley was a tour of the women's John...
...MONEY, POWER, STATUS--They can be yours!" the book cover beckons. Yes, the man who taught three million men and millions more women to "Dress for Success" now tells Americans how to perform in every facet of their lives, from choosing a mate to eating string beans. All in pinstripe perfection...
...London's Gatwick Airport, stewardesses and ticket agents openly wept. Sir Freddie Laker, the swashbuckling British entrepreneur who had revolutionized transatlantic travel by slashing air fares, had abruptly announced that he was liquidating his debt-laden airline. Said one Laker counter attendant: "It's hit everyone, mate-like a smack in the mouth...
Indeed, while Hoover fulminated against "socalled new deals," it was Roosevelt who accused the President of "reckless and extravagant" spending, and of thinking "that we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, Congressman John Nance Garner of Texas, 63, even claimed that Hoover was "leading the country down the path of socialism." Eleanor Roosevelt best summed up her husband's uncertain command of the future when she wrote at the time of his Inauguration: "One has a tremendous feeling of going it blindly, because...
...space traveler returning from a distant galaxy. On the more bizarre side there are the Cycloranas, the water-holding frogs of the Australian desert. Their active life is condensed to brief times when there is water in those arid wastes. After a rainstorm, they gorge themselves on insects, mate, then watch their eggs quickly develop into tadpoles. Finally, bloated with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come for many months. In one of the series' most fascinating sequences, Attenborough digs up a piece of the desert and drops it into...