Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charades, dance smoothly, charm a pretty girl. He is also one of the most artful dodgers of a restaurant check in public life, affects a studied carelessness about his appearance. The famous 1952 photo of Stevenson's worn-out shoe sole was no contrivance; neither was the pair of eyeglasses he carried last spring−they had been mended with a brass safety...
Flying Saucer was dreamed up by a pair of young men who are trying to crash the music business: Dick Goodman, 22, who quit N.Y.U. to write songs, and Bill Buchanan, 24, a song publisher. The idea looked so good to them that they started the Luniverse label to make the record...
...Lancet touched off another major debate by charging that London Surgeon Sir Henry Thompson had caused the death of exiled Emperor Napoleon III by operating on him for a bladder stone by lithotrity (penetration into the urethra by a pair of forceps) instead of lithotomy (incision into the bladder...
...Glove Restraint. Though Natalia flees Como, she decides that fate has left her no choice: she is now inextricably linked with her brother. Behind them, the ill-fated pair leave broken hearts and a suicide...
Every August the most fashionable of fashionable Parisians pack their race horses and head for a 1,000-year-old village on the Normandy coast, 120 miles away. In old Deauville (pop. 5,438) they unpack their purses at three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...