Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worshipers. Base camp for Teacher Duff's job is the jungle outpost of Yarinacocha. Bush planes fly the Tennessee teacher and her partner, Florida-reared Mary Ruth Wise, to the vicinity of Amuesha villages, land on the rivers. From there the journeys are by foot or raft. For three months each year, the women return to Yarinacocha with likely Indian prospects, help turn the natives into teachers. The Peruvian government pays salaries of Indian teachers and helps finance the base settlement, but Teacher Duff and fellow linguists who work with other tribes are supported by Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...could tell the Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind...
Olmedo, 22-year-old Peruvian who was the sensation of America's Davis Cup victory, had to quit after playing 12 games as the partner of MacKay in doubles. He said the pain was so severe he could not serve...
Hancock went on, "Of course people will wonder at my partner and me --how we can be law students and still run a bar. But we work only on Friday and Saturday nights, times most students use for leisure anyway." The club will have its grand opening tomorrow evening...
Their secret seems to be that no strain -from highly organized Betty's husband and two children to highly disorganized Adolph's feckless bachelorhood-has flawed a 20-year collaboration. "If I weren't stuck with her as my partner," Adolph once wrote in tribute to Betty, "I could be off on my own and free to starve to death-or worse yet, free to bore myself to death...