Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
Willkie ended his campaign on the same strenuous note he pitched it soon after he wrested the nomination from the Republican convention. He addressed the women of America, appeared on a broadcast with his running mate, Sen. Charles E. Mc Nary of Oregon, and at midnight conducted an "extraordinary" last word program...
Browder's running mate: Negro James William Ford...
Introduced to a crowd of 35,000 by Senator Charles L. McNary, his running mate-who had been drafted by Pittsburgh GOPoliticos for the occasion, in order to keep the honor from little Governor Arthur H. James-Willkie promised to appoint a man as Secretary of Labor ("it's a man's job"), to revise NLRB through special legislation, to extend Social Security, to enforce the wage-hour law, to clean out Communists in the Government. He asked labor to clean house of its racketeers. The speech went well with the audience, was said, unofficially, to have pleased...
Paramecia reproduce mostly by fission -splitting in two-like the smaller and simpler amoebae, but now & then paramecia mate by clinging together in pairs. This seems to put new vigor into the reproductive cycle. Some paramecium pairs come together violently, adhere for 24 to 36 hours. Other matings are gentler, even flirtatious. Dr. Jennings said he had seen pairs nuzzle each other several times, then swim off side by side in graceful spirals, like "couples in a dance." After years of watching these goings-on, Dr. Jennings was willing to carry the origins of social behavior all the way back...