Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young fella." A man asked: "They treating you rough, Joe?" Replied Meek: "No, I'm just punch-drunk." When he saw a married couple departing, he said to the wife: "Won't he stay for the dance? Make the old fossil take you." The pair smiled, and kept going-and so did Joe Meek. His hopes for defeating Douglas rest largely on his leaving no Illinois hand unshaken...
...race, no one could have doubted Chataway's will to win. As expected, Kuc jumped into an early lead, but Chataway was right on his heels. When the Russian.sprinted, Chataway turned on the power and stayed with him. Lap after lap they rounded the track, close as a pair of vaudeville tap dancers. The Russian could not shake his pursuer...
...they took the last turn, a spotlight focused on the pair and picked up Chataway's final move. His smooth style remained, but there was no sign of the stamina needed for a sprint when the Briton moved out on the track to get racing room. Fifty yards from the tape, he was half a pace back. Twenty-five yards to go, and he was still behind. But the gap was smaller now. By the time they passed the tape, Chris Chataway, the man who always finishes second, was first by a stride. His time...
...brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think it's lovely," Percy Uris explained last week, "but after all, the tenants...
...different, present-day situation (in which the West is very far from being "at bay"), the Zealots might advocate stringent repression of all hostile ideas, as well as dropping a few atomic bombs on Russia; the Herodians would favor gradual appeasement. Toynbee would consider both parties an "unmerciful pair of pedants." Both courses would in the end aid the Communists: appeasement obviously by strengthening them, internal repression and atomic war with all its terrors by making democratic life impossible for a long time, regardless of who wins. A smart nymph, according to Toynbee, would work for peaceful coexistence...