Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, at a mere 47, I decided that I must buy a new pair of patent leather dancing shoes-in itself a rather daring decision. Trying to make small talk with the clerk, I remarked that the shoes I was replacing had lasted ever since my college days. "Yep," he replied, "you can get a lot of wear out of this kind of shoe." And then, as he fitted the shiny new shoes to my middle-aged feet: "You're buying your last pair right...
...Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal family retainer so pickled in alcohol that-whatever the charge-he is ready to swear the butler did it. The vogue...
...preview of the kind of service to come, a self-propelled Central car, fitted with a streamlined snout and topped with a pair of Air Force surplus jet engines, last week whined through the flat farm country between Butler, Ind., and Stryker, Ohio, at a U.S. rail record of 184 m.p.h. The test indicated that with existing technology and only minor changes in roadbeds, U.S. passenger trains can easily reach the 125-m.p.h. speed at which experts say railroads can profitably compete with airlines for the short-haul passenger trade. Said Perlman, 63, who acted as "copilot...
...from a breed of Toggenburger goats on the campus animal farm. His mother, Virginia R. Hector, the chancellor's chaste daughter who works in the WESCAC programming room, falls into a trance before the machine and somehow is delivered of the goat-child. He is marked by a pair of horns. The goatherd, a disgraced Moishian (Jewish) professor, is cleared of suspicion...
Among U.S. tropical-fish fanciers, who own some 23 million aquariums, by far the most popular species is the 190 Scarlet Characin, whose Latin handle is Cheirodon axelrodi. Among the most expensive is the brown Discus, or Symphysodon aequifasciata axelrodi, for which hobbyists pay $300 for a breeding pair. Both of these, as well as about two dozen other varieties of tropical fish, are named for a burly, sometimes surly, businessman-scientist named Herbert R. Axelrod. At 39, Dr. Axelrod has been the supreme sage on tropical fish for so long that many people imagine...