Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even came boring in with some of his old artful lefts and rights. "Willie's trying for an early knockout," ringside fans told each other. But it wasn't Willie's night. A right cross sent him down for a count of eight. Moments later, another pair of rights sent Willie down again, for nine. And before the round could end, another attack sent Willie down for the third time. There was no count: under New York rules, a fighter in a nontitle fight is automatically out after three knockdowns in one round...
...clear that the world had regained a magnificent pair of pictures, worthy of the great tradition of Giovanni Bellini, and showing a clarity of form and color foreign to 20th century artists. The question was how they had come to disappear in the first place. They were known to have been in the Duke of Norfolk's collection in 1894, when Westminster Cathedral was still under construction. Presumably he gave them to the cathedral, and they lay forgotten for years in the cavernous fastnesses of Westminster...
...Mrkonich as usual teams with Coolidge on defense in front of goalie Charlie Flynn. Patton and Ned Almy will form the second defensive pair...
...them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into his open jaws and pick leeches and scraps of food from between his teeth. At the least hint of danger, they leave his jaws with a shriek and the croc submerges...
...pair of champions tantalized the galleries with upsets before clinching their national intercollegiate squash titles at Hemenway on Saturday...