Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condition of thrifts is perhaps worst in New York City. Federal officials are now trying to find a merger mate for the venerable (founded 1819) New York Bank for Savings, which has assets of $3.6 billion. At least eight other New York institutions are also in trouble. Says Muriel Siebert, the state's superintendent of banking: "The problems are extremely serious. These are institutions that survived the Civil War and the Great Depression and never missed an interest payment. This is air unprecedented phenomenon...
...program shown so many forms of courtship and copulation: millipedes writhing in combinations too complicated to comprehend, goggle-eyed newts climbing atop each other, fish defying the hazards of nature to bring sperm to egg, frogs singing hoarse epithalamiums in ponds and swamps. Only fast-flying swifts, which mate on the wing, seem able to escape the prying lens...
...Poland's military/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing martial law and immediately appeals to his people's sense of nationalism to curb their nationalist aspirations. His appeals to the "Fatherland" evoke memories of the formerly martial Fatherland to Poland's west and provide a neat mate for the martial Motherland to Poland's east. Iran's religious/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing harsher measures than his military/political predecessor...
...Wilding in 1952; Producer Mike Todd in 1957; Singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; and Actor Richard Burton in 1964 and again in 1975. In the early stages of Liz and John's relationship, all was bliss: he was the silver-haired political newcomer, she was his superstar hustings-mate and bubbling party-circuit matron. But when she detoured to her Broadway triumph in The Little Foxes, it was reported that those violet eyes began to wander. At one point, she was linked to Foxes Producer Zev Bufman, 51. Bufman, married to his wife Vilma for 23 years, laughed...
...public opinion before being restored to favor-goes back to Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon's was the first such trial by television, which took place 20 years earlier than Nixon's greater trials in Watergate. In 1952 he saved himself from being dropped as Ike's running mate by making his maudlin Checkers speech. Nixon had one decided advantage over Allen. He persuaded the Republican Party to buy half an hour of prime television time, where he could make his pitch uninterrupted by hectoring reporters. For Allen to plead his case before the big audiences he wanted...