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Word: pair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they don't have to be. Why not add some excitement to Christmas morning by putting a pair of his and her blimps under the tree? Neiman-Marcus, the exclusive and expensive Houston-based department store, is selling the duet of dirigibles at $50,000--each. Powered by 72-horsepower engines, the behemoths are 120 feet long and can fly at a top speed of 25 miles an hour...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...front of the hotel two autograph hounds attacked Arnold. The pair went to have tea, chatted about the Longinian ideal, the habit of greatness, idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or Mr. Arnold. That meant something to Hercules, it meant that Arnold was more than a weightlifter or an actor or a businessman or an author--Arnold was Arnold. Suddenly Hercules desperately wanted a pair of blue armadillo boots...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Ellie Cunningham and Courtney Stimpson, a pair of returning varsity teammembers, round out the racquet-women's squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Take the Court | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Reagan calls the national campaign trail the "mashed potato circuit," and he has been wandering along it for 15 years. Says he: "I have a feeling now that I don't get on planes. I get up in the morning and put them on, like a pair of pants. I wear them. In show business we used to say that if you don't sing or dance, you wind up an after-dinner speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: If You Don't Dance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Phoebe is a Vermont schoolmarm. Jason is a renowned Broadway playwright. He takes Phoebe on as a working partner, and the pair embark on a platonic but curiously possessive relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love Apples | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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