Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover-Up." The Laborites were just as anxious to avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known...
...friendly game of golf scrabbled for invitations. Among them was Richard L. Armstrong, a Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there was a rumor running around the club that he had burned up the course on a practice round...
CALIFORNIA BANK MERGER combining San Francisco's venerable Crocker First National and Anglo California National banks will give the pair total deposits of $1.28 billion. Crocker-Anglo will be California's fourth biggest (after Bank of America, Security-First National and American Trust...
...biggest overseas industrial exhibition that Red China has yet attempted, the entrance to Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red and gold dragon writhed in the streets and clouds of confetti burst over the eager crowds. Then it rained for a week and the lions began to come apart. By last week the enthusiasm for the fair of many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with...
...Geneva during the past summer does not seem to have improved with age. The Big Four foreign ministers, meeting again now in the Swiss city, have found that despite the optimism and conviviality of their national leaders last July, the policies of East and West still reduce to a pair of incompatible, non-compromising positions on the basic questions of German unification and European security. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has subverted the Geneva Spirit by such tactics as triggering an arms race in the Mideast and stirring up anti-Western sentiment in North Africa and Cyprus, while Western nations like...