Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the lack of competition, continued Rogers, many British products "are shoddy, often poorly inspected and generally overpriced. Often a pair of shoes does not match. Sometimes two shoes in a pair were made each on a different last. In this country, the consumer is a completely forgotten man. Let him get up on his hind legs and say: Trices are too high. Styling is ridiculous, and I won't buy it.' " In Diplomat Rogers' mind, Britain's consumers, industrial managers and trade unions alike are all to blame for a situation that spoils...
...wide open. It had been left unlocked. On entering the room, he noticed that his bureau drawers had been opened and that two new shirts and a new sweater had been removed. His roommates checked and reported that they were missing a topcoat, three sweaters, a sports coat, a pair of slack, and possibly some shirts...
With the approval of both his parents, Johnny Pair of Atlanta had his left eye removed two years ago to check the spread of cancer (retinoblastoma) along nerve pathways to the brain. Now Johnny, 5, has suffered a recurrence of the disease. His right eye is gradually losing its sight, and doctors say that unless it is soon removed he will certainly die. If he is operated on, they give him an even chance of survival. His mother, Mrs. Bessie Pair, 32, favors the operation. But she is now divorced from Arnold Pair, 36, and surgeons refuse to operate without...
Last week, faced with a harrowing but not uncommon dilemma, Arnold Pair said: "I'm against the operation. My mind could be changed if somebody could convince me Johnny will live after this operation, but no one will say for sure that he'll come through. The way I figure it, the poor kid may as well enjoy to the fullest the time he has left. I say, let him see while he can." But before reaching a final decision, Pair consulted his minister and sought guidance in prayer...
Author Rowse finds it hard to understand why satirists such as Swift and Pope fired some of their nastiest arrows at the glittering Marlboroughs. He bridles at the refusal of most Britons (which persists to this day) to regard the mighty pair with proper awe and admiration. To have boundless ambition, to become fabulous millionaires, to seize the power behind the throne coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs...