Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years went on, and Walt prospered, The Mouse got some of the benefits. In 1931 he was given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey...
Carrot controls several jet squadrons on 24-hour alert, plus National Guard augmentation units. The alert squadrons, like others throughout the U.S., scramble three or four times a day. Their sleek interceptors are always armed, fueled and ready to roll, with the lead pair parked on the take-off strip and two more right behind. As at every air-defense base, restless jet pilots are always waiting in the ready shack for the buzzer-the loud rasping signal to scramble. "It sounds pretty awful," said one Kirtland pilot to a newsman sharing his vigil, "after you've been here...
...their flying gear (pressure suit, parachute, oxygen mask, survival kit, maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick to turn on their landing lights to identify themselves...
Since World War II, when servants all but disappeared from the kitchen, a pair of Omaha, Neb. businessmen named W. Clarke and Gilbert C. Swanson have done more than anyone else to take their place. As president and chairman of C. A. Swanson & Sons frozen-food company, the brothers have cut hours from kitchen chores with nine lines of frozen pies, appetizers, meat and poultry dishes, and complete "TV Dinners," each one ready to heat and eat within minutes. The result: a booming $100-million yearly business that is really just starting to grow...
Doug Manchester, who began dumping offensive jumps at the blue line last Friday, will be at defense with Poto Summers. Bill Clearly will center the first line with O'Malley and Ned Bliss. Ned Amy and arty Noes are the alternate defense pair...