Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closets happening now. About ten pairs of bell bottoms, and then eight suits. You know, double-breasted, four buttons--some with epaulets, some with bell bottoms. Both three piece and regular. About thirty shirts, I guess--like, with roll collars or ferociously high collars. Three or four pair of shoes, four or five pair of boots. And, like, I don't think I can count the ties...
...radio is saying baby baby baby. And Larry seems sad. But just for a moment. "Stay there," he says as he goes over to a shelf. "We just got these in." He comes back holding a pair of furry pants. "Yetti pants," he explains. "Yetti is another word for the Abominable Snowman." I stroked the pants. "Just like a rug," he grins. Groovy...
...Gipper. Take Micrin. Scene shows a high school football coach. His mouth tastes like a pair of socks after a hard day's scrimmage, but he's too stupid to know it. A player gives him a cold eye and blurts: "Why were the guys whispering? I'll tell you. You have bad breath. BAD BREATH!" Instead of booting the impudent brat out of the locker room, Coach goes on a Micrin bender, leaving the audience to conclude that now, by gosh, his team will get out there against State, and win one for the Gipper...
...conflict and domination" struggle with an instrument is strictly man's work. When attractive Doriot Dwyer was appointed first flutist of the Boston Symphony 14 years ago, one proper Brahmin sent her a package with a letter demanding that she hide her exposed ankles with the enclosed pair of thick grey stockings. She demurred, and at least one Boston man is glad; since the arrival of the ladies, he has taken to watching the concerts through binoculars...
...discussing the problems of underdeveloped countries. Lately the camaraderie has revolved around copper, featuring quiet exchanges of missions across the Atlantic on the possibilities of cooperating, rather than competing, in the metal. Last week Kaunda himself flew to Santiago. At the end of two days of talks, the presidential pair announced heady plans for a copper cartel designed to control the free world market...