Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff, says the history, "faithfully wore sample undergarments while carrying on preplanning ; male planners offered their best guesses in the matter, and the staff became accustomed, as one member noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then...
Double Switch. In Dallas, a thief stole $290 from work clothes in a locker room, changed into a pair of stolen trousers, left the loot in his discarded pants...
...pair struck the Union twice, with home-made bombs of butyric acid, a chemical described as smelling "like a combination of rancid butter and decaying Parmesan cheese...
...first attack came several hours before the Saturday formal dance, when the pair apparently crept into the balcony overlooking the dance floor and spread the chemicals on the floor and railings. The second bomb was thrown into the main entrance of the Union...
After all the nuclear suspense, most viewers were happy to relax with a pair of agreeable surprises. On NBC's This is Your Life, General Mark Clark began with a soldierly aloofness to the drum-beating enthusiasm of Emcee Ralph Edwards. But as Edwards produced onstage a succession of relatives, Army privates, British comrades-at-arms and ex-West Pointers, the general choked up as humanly as any other mortal. Vividly attractive Mrs. Clark recalled that they had first met on a blind date and that "he was a complete bust." The general affectionately reminded...