Word: mates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little intensive, even if short," he said wryly. "And the first thing I knew about . . . any presidential nominee having any great influence in the vice-presidential selection was, I think, about the moment that I was nominated." On that instant, Ike recalled, he was asked to name his running mate, and "I said I would not do it-I didn't know enough about the things that had been going on in the United States. I had been gone two years. And so I wrote down the names of five, or maybe it was six, men, younger men that...
...home and having his own room and all we have to draw on are American boys." Among the Carronade's 137 crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That Sarasota sand overhead. I've had a stiff neck for 13 years...
...falcon-look of a Kabyle from the Atlas Mountains; Michael McLiammoir plays a foul-fiend of an lago with reptilian intensity; and Suzanne Clothier as Desdemona, though not quite entrancing enough to "sing the savageness out of a bear," wins compassion as she is bewilderingly overwhelmed by her mate and fate...
...White House chances reached their high in the 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when, backed by a nationwide string of McNutt-for-President clubs, he was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination, but loyally withdrew after Roosevelt insisted on Henry Agard Wallace as a running mate...
Outplayed until the third period, the Rineharts exploded, as Tom Walsh of Kirkland scored at 4.55 on a pass from House-mate Walt Gannon. Later, with less than two minutes left in the game, Ed Carey of Leverett pushed the puck by Wintergreen goalie Paul Jameson of Adams in a mix-up in front of the goal to tie up the game...