Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After they moved to Libertyville,* near Chicago, the Brandos had a horse, a cow, a great Dane, a goose, a pair of bantams, several rabbits and 28 cats. Bud was the only one who could milk the cow. To this menagerie he would occasionally add a wounded snake or broken bird he had found somewhere. Once, when Bud's favorite chicken died, Mrs. Brando buried it in the garden. Bud dug it up and brought it back into the house. Mrs. Brando buried the chicken again. Bud dug it up. This went on for some time...
...help motorists stuck in snow and mud, Campbell Chain Co. of York, Pa. has put on sale curved metal lugs that snap easily around tires. The Traction Klips, designed for emergency grip action, are flipped off with a special lever. Price: $5 a pair...
...newest exercise, Sabrina, is nothing more than a modern comedy of manners that tries too hard to be something else. The plot mixes equal parts of a million dollars, a pair of eligible sons of the household, and a Long Island estate. The attempts at moralizing, however, settle to the bottom and give the froth an unbalanced weight...
Shortly before the Cohen bout, Bangkok fight fans took in some home-style boxing in Rajadamnern Stadium, and found it more to their taste. Before a typical bout a pair of lithe welterweights, Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth and Kaeh Chomsrimesk, bowed gracefully to the crowd, knelt on the canvas for prayers to Buddha, and warmed up with a graceful, slow-motion dance. Then the gong sounded for the first round, an energetic four-piece band swung into a tune that sounded like an old-fashioned American carnival hootchy-kootchy, and the fighters started dancing in earnest...
...lines. Then, as the empty hours drag on, livelier visions appear. They may see rows of little yellow men with black caps and open mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...