Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget, initiates programs, promotes and transfers officers, has full disciplinary power over them. "We have rules," says he, "and they are very rigid. We feel that officers' lives should be kept apart." Officers cannot smoke, use alcohol, go to the theatre. Since the choice of a mate requires the approval of their superiors, nearly all of them marry within the ranks, rear another generation of Salvationists. Mrs. Commissioner Damon was Captain Annie Barrow before her marriage. The Damons' daughter, Mrs. Adjutant Lyell Rader of Newark, is an active Army officer...
Columnist Pegler's column mate Hugh S. Johnson moved in, grunting heavily: ". . . A 30-minute spray of typical Ickiness. . . . A barrage of gas, mud and fireworks...
...drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small boat over, abandoned ship just in time. Down sank the Fannie with scarcely a gurgle...
...Willkie is so eager for a debate ... I suggest that he challenge his running mate, Senator McNary, with whom he is at greater variance . . . than . . . with the President...
...Misiones Territory. Although the German population of Misiones is less than 24% of the total and a majority of the Germans are not Nazis, a wealthy Hitler-minded minority controls most of the region's power plants, dominates its economy by a strangle hold on the mate trade. For these Nazis, Misiones is strategically perfect. It curves up in a thin tongue of land between Paraguay and Brazil; its hills and rivers afford a series of natural defenses in case of civil war. Bounded on the north, east and south by heavily German-populated districts of Brazil...