Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bread. Inevitably, New Orleans' tragedy brought out the best, and worst, in its people. In a filthy emergency shelter, a pair of nuns worked tirelessly to bathe a long line of Negro children in a commandeered garbage can. Some areas had to be cordoned off against looters. Many merchants gave supplies to the hungry; others battened on privation by charging $1 or more for a loaf of bread, $5 for a block of ice. A dozen high school students volunteered for the grimmest duty of all-sorting victims in the morgue...
Celebrities proved largely loss leaders. Steve Lawrence tried using Lucille Ball, got his show stolen right out from under him as she sang, danced and displayed, at age 54, the best pair of legs in town. The Dean Martin Show tried flooding the screen with headliners such as Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fisher and Diahann Carroll, but for all the nudging, warbling, winking and leering, the party turned out to be the kind you would thank the stars for not attending. "Folks," said Martin at the close, "there's an old show-business tradition: the show must...
...Comic adventure with a pair of U.S. agents...
...boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...
...Bloody Game. To accommodate the Americans, craps have made their first appearance in London. At The Pair of Shoes club, one Texan was doing so well recently that he was finally riding $50,000. "You already own the second and third floors," said the owner, covering the bet. "You might as well own the first too." The Texan rolled an eight and took eleven tense flings before crapping out. Observed another American: "The dice get as cold here as they do anywhere else...