Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Series, Davis Cup competition and The Ashes of cricket all folded into one. El Cordobés and Palomo Linares had defied Los Siete Grandes, the seven biggest ring owner-agents, who henceforth intend to control the sport by setting fees and scheduling matadors. For that, the pair had been banished, cast out to fight before the drunks and girls and the never-grow-ups in picturesque third-class towns...
...muscleman, Banks derives his deceptive power from a pair of outsize hands and wrists that allow him to whip the bat around at the last possible instant. Last season, while aging superstars like Mickey Mantle were going into slow fadeouts, Ernie knocked in 83 runs and belted 32 home runs, the most he had hit in six years. Says Durocher: "I wish I knew what kind of pills he takes. I'd like to feed them to some of my other players...
...orders so that competitors will not run away with them. Since 1968, the oil companies have put into service twelve ships of 200,000 tons or more-called "oilbergs"-and they have 170 more on order in yards from Bilbao to Yokohama. Last week California Standard contracted for a pair of 260,000-tonners from Japan's Mitsubishi. Britain's Scott Lithgow group two weeks ago landed its first order for an oilberg, a 250,000-tonner to be constructed for Anglo Norness, a Bermuda-based shipping company. The builder will launch the huge ship in two sections...
...Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles down the Thames from Marlow to Westminster Bridge...
...seductress whose voluptuous thighs, when the proper key is turned, open to reveal a red velvet jewel box inside. Her face disassembles into a bracelet that can be removed and worn by the owner. The most dramatic work is one called Alfa and Romeo, which looks like a demure pair of lovers in a hand-to-hand embrace. But wait. A sharp below-the-belt blow to Romeo brings down Alfa's blouse and releases a knife that whips with dazzling speed into her midsection...