Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gifts and kept hoping that one day . . . Now Gus and John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom a pair of square Florentine cuff links and a tie clasp, then burst into tears. No emergency procedures for Gus. He just introduced her as "my Number One fan," gave her his chair and sat on the floor while the mayor spoke. "We made it, Gus and I," sighed Andrea...
...Rome, Butcher Alberico Amati tried to be more subtle when an undertaker moved in next door, casting a pall over Amati's business. In reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property...
...public had wearied of yellow journalism, and the comics calmed down. There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore...
...shoemakers of the U.S. would be happy indeed if men were as vain as women are. American women impulsively buy shoes to match mood and outfit, acquire an average of one new pair every three months. The typical American man is far less affected by this urge: he buys shoes hardly once every eight months...
...product of some major changes in the shoe industry. The industry has been for decades a casual and fragmented father-to-son business, with a relatively high rate of profit (up to 20% on invested capital) and little mechanization; even today 220 people work on the average pair of shoes. In the last few years, however, mergers and some failures have reduced the numbers of producers by 10%, and the few big manufacturers -International, Brown, Endicott Johnson, Genesco and U.S. Shoe-have expanded their share of the market by opening more retail outlets in discount houses and department stores...