Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Chafic a job at the Detroit plant as his secretary at $2.31 an hour. "He told me he could make me a gold medalist in 500 hours." After this, things grew slightly confused. Winter says that Sabino borrowed his charge plate at a department store to buy a pair of shoes, but bought $800 worth of clothes instead, and then talked him out of a 21-in. television set. Sabino "bought" John's Lincoln convertible, promising part payment in dance lessons...
Chrysler, which has lagged behind the style parade, this week showed off a pair of new low-slung experimental models, the Plymouth Belmont and the Dodge Fire-arrow. Though Chrysler sold 1.6% fewer cars (1,224,000) last year than in 1952, it still leads the horsepower race with its 235-h.p. engine. But its conservative styling has not helped sales, and it has already been forced to cut back production of some of its 1954 models. To remedy the situation, Chrysler Corp. expects to incorporate some of the ideas of its racy experimental cars in a complete model change...
...bother with barbed wire or close guarding. Of 350 French, Senegalese and North Africans in the camp when Leriche arrived, some 200 died of starvation, beriberi, malaria, dysentery. Yet, grotesquely, Camp 113 was proudly regarded by the Reds as a special operation. It was run by a pair of polished, French-speaking Vietnamese who addressed the prisoners as "Mes chers amis...
...Hers (by Fay & Michael Kanin) uses a comic framework as neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...
M.I.T. has a fair varsity sprinter in Dan Hamilton, and Bob Jantzen is equally capable in the back stroke. But neither should well as Tech lost to a mediocre University of Connecticut team, 55-29, and beyond this pair the Engineers are weak...