Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undercut Perón's pretensions to righteousness, an official investigating committee reported that during his twelve years in power, Peronista Congressmen raised their combined personal assets from 6,650,000 pesos to a fat 206,000,000 pesos -among the biggest gainers being the pair who offered the greatest number of congressional resolutions of homage...
Private Radio. A two-way radio that costs only $119.50 per pair of units has been put on the market by Vocaline Corp. of America, Old Saybrook, Conn. Designed for both personal and business use, e.g., to talk back and forth on a big construction project, the Vocaline transceiver works over a distance of ten miles if the units are in line of sight, half a mile if there are obstacles between them. It operates over the citizens frequency band reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for short-range personal communications...
...toward a beloved brother," was the way tubby Nikita Khrushchev described the welcome accorded to him and his fellow-traveler Nikolai Bulganin on their recent visit to Burma. It was an impulsive way to describe the politeness with which the Burmese had borne the visit of the bad-mannered pair, who had used their hosts' most sacred shrines as soapboxes from which to hurl insults at Britain. But the Burmese were quick to make equally polite restitution...
...Worst People on Earth." The Aucas have been described by one scientist as "the worst people on earth." Relatively well-built and lightskinned, they wear little except bright body paint, with a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention...
...officers are in this country to supervise the transfer of a pair of destroyer escorts to the Korean Navy, the ex-U.S.S. Muir and Sutton, which are currently being fitted out at the U.S. Navy Yard in Boston...