Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen likes to kid the President that the new father's parents are a pair of staunch Republicans from Waukegan...
Like shooting bottles off a barnyard fence, the gunslingers on NBC's top-rated Bonanza have for several seasons systematically picked off every show offered in the opposing time slots. Five months ago, CBS rushed in a pair of suburban slickers, and to the industry's surprise, they knocked Bonanza out of the No. 1 slot and made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show of the season...
...Sophomore Night at last week's A.A.U. Track and Field championships. Under the lights at Memorial Stadium in Bakersfield, Calif., a crowd of 11,600 watched in awe as a pair of second-year college boys proved that youth can serve itself, thank you, with record-breaking performances that did much to boost U.S. hopes for the 1968 Olympics-and beyond...
...Anderson, as victims of a "pathological desire for vengeance." He branded the columnists as "the most unscrupulous character assassins ever spawned by the American press." No doubt this argument had its effect, for hardly any Senator would relish having his employees hand private documents from his files to a pair of muckrakers...
Last week his judgment was already being vindicated. As shame followed the orgy, the zoo was flooded with sympathetic phone calls and letters. Most of the missing animals were smuggled back under coats and in lunch pails. Children began policing one another's behavior. A pair of eight-year-old girls rang doorbells and collected $14.39, which they sent in with a note of apology, saying that "hopefully, most children are taught kindness and gratitude for the love and beauty of God's creatures." "The contrast is unbelievable," said Seattle Park Superintendent Edward Johnson...