Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diamantina, the Kubitschek family was poor. When Júlia had taught her son all she could, she persuaded Diamantina's Roman Catholic seminary to take him as a pupil at a reduced tuition fee. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what I would call deep...
...Crimson, Al Lubetkin, playing his first game of the year, came up with 11 points, but did it the hard way. Twice he converted a pair of fouls after being knocked flat by Brown. Ike Canty was high scorer for the losers with 13, Haughey had 12, Dick Hurley 9, Bob Hastings 8, Riggs and Getch 3 each, and Warren Kantrowitz, Lou Lowenfels and Bob Bowman 2 apiece
...smooth style carried him to the finish of the 500-meter dash in 0:40.2, a new world's record. Split seconds slower, a pair of his teammates finished second and fourth. In the 5,000-meter dash, Russian Construction Engineer Boris Shilkov did almost as well, shattered the Olympic record with a 7:48.7 victory. No U.S. skater scored; as in other events, U.S. contestants were doing very badly...
Comfortably established and drinking hot tea last week in the San Diego Zoo were a pair of proboscis monkeys from Borneo. Roxanne, the female, looks like an ordinary monkey, but Cyrano, the male, has a long, drooping, flexible nose that would make the fortune of a TV comedian. Perhaps Roxanne admires the nose, but it has no use except to give Cyrano's cry a nasal, down-East twang...
Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) are seldom seen outside Borneo. San Diego got its pair through G. Wyman Carroll of New Haven, a free-lance animal dealer who spotted a pair in the Surabaya Zoo. At first Surabaya demanded two camels in exchange, then asked for two llamas. Carroll made a counteroffer of two sea lions. Surabaya finally sent the two proboscis monkeys, two Sumatran gibbons, two black langurs and one Celebes phalanger. In return it got two sea lions, two ring-tailed and two spider monkeys, and two U.S. raccoons...