Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding Physician Armstead Hudnell's suggestion to punch a small hole in the cigarette, I tried it and discovered very little trace of nicotine in the filter on the punched half. Then I punched two holes-more effective! I then punched three, four and five holes. With a pair of scissors I snipped a hole all the way around the cigarette. Would you believe, not a trace of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide or smoke? What a Golconda...
...other prisoner who made news was Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens...
...subject was abortion, virtually unthinkable as a topic of public discussion only a few years ago. The sponsors of the Washington conference of physicians, sociologists, theologians and jurists were an unlikely pair: the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and the Harvard Divinity School. Eunice Kennedy Shriver explained for the foundation that it was concerned with the subject because abortion has been recommended as a means of reducing the number of children doomed to mental retardation. Harvard Theologian Herbert W. Richardson said the conference was designed to put public discussion of abortion on a higher plane...
...sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates that are joined with Aden in the Federation of South Arabia add up to an area of shifting sands, tribal fiefs, and steadily building trouble. A pair of powerful leftist terrorist organizations - the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.O.S.Y.), which is backed by Nasser, and the home grown rebels of the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) - have been jockeying for positions of power ever since Britain promised to give the federation its independence in January. With four months to go, the terrorists are operating with increasing urgency...
...rugged hills near Piaxtla, an isolated village in the state of Puebla, a modern auto recently pulled a bright orange trailer toward a group of waiting campesinos. They unhitched the trailer, hooked it up to a pair of brown oxen, and the animals plodded to the top of a hill overlooking the town...