Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sato was honest to a fault about the early days of her marriage to Sato, a cousin. It was a match that, like many of the time, had been arranged while she was still in primary school. Her first shock as a bride came when she realized that her husband was consorting with geisha girls, Japan's professional entertainers, and was spending more than half the family budget on them. "I really dreaded geisha girls," she recalled. Her eldest son almost threw a rock at a geisha whom he saw walking with his father...
What is one Russian? An anarchist. Two Russians? A chess match. Three Russians? A Communist cell. Four Russians? The Budapest String Quartet...
...much above the music as with it. Although they lost some of their ease and sparkle in later years, they never sank below a remarkably high level of interpretive excellence. Even on an off night, they played with exactitude of tempo and emotional involvement that few other ensembles could match-the reflection of so many years of living together and apart...
Thrilling as it was, the Rose Bowl contest could not match the game played later on in Miami for suspense. The Orange Bowl provided one of the wildest endings of any bowl game ever as Penn State defeated Kansas 15-14. Trailing 14-7 with just over a minute remaining, Penn State Quarterback Chuck Burkhart hit Bob Campbell with a desperation pass from his own 49, and Campbell made it to the Kansas 3-yd. line. On third down, Burkhart rolled out for the score. His pass for a two-point conversion failed, but Kansas was penalized for having twelve...
...years is the sadistic murder of an eight-year-old boy by a lesbian couple. This grisly action greatly resembles the Moors murder case, described in 1967 by Snow's novelist wife Pamela Hansford Johnson in a short book of moralizing social criticism called On Iniquity. Trying to match modified reality with near-art, Snow contrives to have Eliot drawn into the murder's aftermath and the murderers' trial through a series of unconvincing coincidences. The brother of one of the killers is a college student who is involved in a sex scandal requiring disciplinary action...