Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to die was John Kent ("Shob") Carter, 25, whose body was found one night in his psychedelically painted apartment. He had been stabbed twelve times with a butcher knife, and his right arm was severed at the elbow. A few days later near Sausalito, a pair of hikers discovered the body of William
...years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...
...thieves" ran from the store with their loot in plain view, carrying an injured man whom they threw in the trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted the license plate. Just as impassively, onlookers looked on as a pair of "robbers" smashed a store window and started looting. Only one man, a 35-year-old civil servant, lunged forward to tackle one of the looters. No one else moved...
...early, conventional portrait done by Titian around 1525, from Omaha, hangs near his 1565, darkly haunting Ecce Homo, from St. Louis. The contrast between the pair illustrates the degree to which the Venetian evolved his own austere, luminous, intensely personal style that became finer and more influential among succeeding generations...
...female rat is capable of breeding at four months, and usually produces four litters, each of six or more young, in her reproductive year. If all lived, one pair would have millions of descendants in two or three years, but the attrition is high enough to keep the numbers fairly constant. Estimates of the U.S. rat population (largely guesswork) range from 90 million to 100 million, or about half as many rats as people. For New York City, the estimates run as high as 8,000,000, or one rat per person. The U.S. Department of the Interior figures that...