Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duty U.S. airman, allegedly bird hunting with a .22-cal. rifle, shot and killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries at the U.S. naval base in Subic Bay killed one of a pair of Filipino fishermen who the marines believed were pilfering from a dockside ammo dump...
Wifely Support. The result is a kind of middlebrow Muzak played by a pair of highly skilled technicians. In novelty numbers they reach into the vitals of their pianos to strum, pluck and pound on the strings. In addition, they keep strips of Masonite, cardboard wedges, and sandpaper stashed in their pianos,' apply them to the strings to conjure up weird effects resembling gongs, castanets, drums, xylophone and harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated...
First came Florence, the boutiques and the gags. Glans covered one pair of pants with another (toreador on the bottom, pantaloons on top), while Ava-golf finished off a long knit dinner dress with two balloons (slit to accommodate feet), left it to Pucci to put fans at the tail ends of a linen evening suit. There was Fabiani's transparent black chiffon dress, dubbed (by Fabiani) "the sexiest in Italy," Micia's shift made out of black poker chips, Trico's black knit, orange-bordered at-home outfit (complete with a ring to be worn...
Virtue is a pair of pants...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...