Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just an ordinary day. Mom was at the store, taking back a party dress she swore she had never once put on (it was only slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense...
Even Communists were not sacrosanct. A pair of East German army officers were dragged from their cars and knocked about like so many imperialists. The offense was severe enough to draw a stiff protest from Pankow-one of many objections from Communist countries to China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Even Cuba's Fidel Castro, no believer in gentle Communism, denounced the Peking paranoids. "It is a sad circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with...
Mountain climbers have scaled its sides, acrobats have walked up on their hands, stunt pilots have flown between its legs, and an adventurous baker once teetered all the way up the 363 steps to the first platform on a pair of stilts. Even more spectacularly the descent has been at tempted by bicycle, parachute and, in 1911, by a tailor who rigged himself out in a batwing cape and jumped off to see if he could fly (he couldn...
...condemned men won nine stays of execution, once beat their date with the electric chair by only three hours. On grounds ranging from coerced confessions to perjured testimony, they appealed to Louisiana's top state court twice, to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. In 1964, the pair broke Caryl Chessman's eleven-years eleven-months Death Row record, and kept appealing in a process that, one judge complained, "seems to have...
...noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...