Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China, Claire Chennault said nothing for publication. Pitcher Chennault was shown at baseball with his deputy and battery mate, Brigadier General Edgar ("Buzz") Glenn, between raids constantly carried out by the Fourteenth on Japanese fields, troop installations, shipping off the South China coast. But if the railway should be out, there would be little left to Chennault & Co. but baseball, until a new supply route should be opened...
...presidency. An internationalist long before Pearl Harbor, Saltonstall was a Willkie man in 1940. Now he is cautiously neutral, and will go to the G.O.P. convention unpledged. He well knows that if either Willkie or Dewey-both New Yorkers-gets the nomination, they will likely seek as a running mate a Westerner such as California's Governor Earl Warren. Saltonstall's only avowed candidacy is for the U.S. Senate, for the seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who is off at the war. (Saltonstall's '14 friend, Sinclair Weeks, was handpicked by the Governor to warm...
...between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much as he can do any afternoon in half an hour at the typewriter." Columnist Fisher also notes that 36-year-old Grafton "has been critical...
...tell you, mate. If you go up the trail another 40 yards . . . and ask those guys up there-they might be able to give...
...result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...