Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week three freshmen in sweat suits paused to watch a pair of crack runners on the track at Soldiers Field, studying the form of the big man in the NYAC garb and his slightly smaller companion wearing H.A.A. insignia...
...token political opposition, headed by a pair of oft-jailed oldsters, was unlikely to make trouble anyway. But many a veteran Guardia officer, serving the brusque, quick-tempered Tachito only because Tacho said to, might feel that loyalty had gone far enough. That would be Tachito's headache...
...calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede shoes to the set of his ample brown hair; he used to arm a secretary with a pair of hairbrushes, station him in the wings so that he could brush his hair between curtain calls...
...Smile from the Animal. The squad jogs into position for group work. Off in a corner, guards and tackles begin to belt into blocking dummies, working in units of four, driving ahead, backpedaling and driving again with high-stepping precision. A pair of "scouting teams'' run opponents' plays at linemen, lashed by the snarling criticism of Assistant Coach Lou Agase, onetime All-Big Ten tackle from Illinois. "The Animal," the players call Agase, though off the field he is the mildest of men. End Coach Bob Devaney, a relatively soft-spoken taskmaster from Alma (Mich.) College, works...
Eliot seeks true love with Margaret, a bookish blithe spirit who captures his fancy by giving him a copy of the Goncourts' journals. After a two-year love affair, the pair decide that they are not made for each other, but after Margaret marries another man and has a child, they decide that they are. The steps Eliot takes to break up Margaret's marriage and marry her himself might have struck old Galsworthy as slightly caddish...