Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaction in both parties was as predictable as the announcement itself. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall, who has been predicting an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket almost every hour on the hour for months, described Eisenhower and Nixon as "the greatest pair of candidates ever presented to the American people." The Eisenhower Cabinet applauded when State Secretary Dulles expressed "the gratification I know my colleagues feel that the team this year is again going to be Ike and Dick." The Democrats, who mortally hate and fear Nixon, hoped mightily that his name would hurt the Republicans with independent voters. Democratic National Chairman Paul...
...next year's elections in mind, the Christian Democrats were dreaming up some vote-getting domestic measures in stead. Usually, at this season of the year, Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer plays his annual spring masquerade as the national miser. He puts on his shawl and oldest pair of shoes, bums a cigarette from his chauffeur and totters onstage to wail that the country is bound for the poorhouse unless he gets a few billions more to balance his budget. This year Schäffer, who bows to no man as a politician, has a tounded his audience...
...University of North Carolina tennis team came to town yesterday, still limping from a 9 to 0 defeat suffered at the hands of the University of Miami. The Southerners were expecting another tough contest with the Crimson, since the last two meetings between the squads produced a pair of very close matches...
...finish line at Exeter Street in downtown Boston. This year, after a decade of watching Japanese, Koreans and Finnish runners wallop America's best, loyal Bostonians saw a chance for victory. There were no entrants from Japan or Korea, and the Finns were represented by a pair of solemn runners who ranked no better than fifth and sixth in their own marathon-happy country...
...apartment last week, Inventor Baschet proudly displayed the result of his nightwork: a monstrous collection of iron plates, steely spirals, glass rods in spiky rows, pneumatic cushions of red-and-white plastic, wires, bolts and screws, hammers, dampers. One instrument looked like a pair of inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future...