Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painful to look directly at it.'' The meteor flared through the sky, disappeared behind a cloud bank, blazed forth below. It slowed down, dimming its light and blooming two parachutes, dropped into the sea about five miles from Kiowa. This was what the tug, along with a pair of escort destroyers, had been waiting for. Kiowa pitched on at flank speed through heavy seas, arrived at its destination about 25 minutes later, sent frogmen over the side. Later, she radioed a professionally laconic message to Florida's Cape Canaveral, 1,500 miles away, from which the bright...
...Able-Baker flight opened vast reaches for human attainment in biology and medicine (see SCIENCE). But far beyond that lay a plain but wondrous fact: if a pair of monkeys, subject to the same physical stresses as man, could return safely from space, so could man. The first human to break the chains of the planet might be named Glenn or Carpenter or Schirra or Shepard or Cooper or Grissom or Slayton. These were the U.S. Astronauts, one of them to be selected as their nation's first space traveler. But whoever the man who returns from space...
Inevitably, into the bitter recall election that resulted stepped the man who, by his inflammatory statements and suggestions, had set off Little Rock's integration explosion in the first place. In a pair of televised speeches. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus put prestige and passion squarely behind CROSS, dismissed STOP as "a smokescreen behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over...
Dancing with Stars. All this triggered a fresh uproar, but it was not directed at young Prince Albert and his lovely princess. Belgians looked fondly at news pictures that showed the engaged pair at a Tuscan seaside resort. And most Belgians rejoiced at hearing that King Baudouin, currently on a U.S. tour, has-away from his father-dropped his former gloomy, standoffish mien, is spending his nights dancing with Debbie Reynolds and his days exchanging unaccustomed quips with newsmen...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, songs, dances and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...