Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nautilus as the forerunner of the all nuclear fleet. Burke's Navy no longer makes conventional submarines: the atomic Sea Wolf is ready for commission, seven more A-subs are under construction or authorized, another six are scheduled in the budget now before Congress. That budget makes a pair of historic requests: one is for a construction start on the first nuclear-powered surface vessel, a missile cruiser of about 11,000 tons; the other is for funds to begin design and procurement on the nuclear power plant for an aircraft carrier. Best estimate of the time required...
...five states last week, primary elections shook down fields of hopefuls for the serious campaigning ahead: ¶In Ohio a pair of fireplug-size campaigners earned the right to meet in November for the governor's chair that Frank J. Lausche is vacating to run for the U.S. Senate. Ex-Federal Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle (5 ft. 5 in., 212 Ibs.) gathered more votes than his four Democratic opponents combined, while State Attorney General C. William O'Neill (5 ft. 5 in., 160 Ibs.) drubbed Lieut. Governor John W. Brown for the Republican nomination. Biggest surprise...
Unhallowed Ground. As Harding prepared for the first political execution in Britain's 78-year island rule, 400,000 Cypriots mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground...
...Park, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a word with her hard-riding husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, while Prince Charles and Princess Anne stood by. Later touring Devonshire, the Queen and her consort had a close scrape when a roadside throng, pressing forward to see the royal pair, toppled a badly anchored 20-ft. flagpole across the highway only a moment after the Queen's open car had passed the spot...
...when they dropped the first set, 6-3, to Moore and Meyer, the prospects of a Yale upset became eminent. However, Harris' beautiful return of serve and fine net play and Junta's crushing service started to coordinate together, and the Crimson duo proceeded to annihilate the Yale pair, 6-3, 6-1, in the final two sets...