Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of forgetting its promise to Italy, explaining it away, as a Foreign Office diplomat did only last week: "If a solution were possible, we'd propose it straightaway . . . But ... I honestly don't see a solution in view. They've just got to compromise, the pair of them...
...offered Farmer Talabard a way out of his difficulty. A jobless 19-year-old who had scraped acquaintance with Marie at another dance,. Jean magnanimously offered to marry Marie in return for work and a permanent home at the Talabard farm. Old Pierre leaped at the offer, and the pair were married in April...
Three Stockings. In their biggest premium campaign to date, Lever Bros. Co. offered three Cannon nylon stockings ("pair and a spare") for $1, plus one "economy" box top or two "large" box tops from one of their packaged products. Last week 4,000 to 7,000 letters a day were pouring in, and the company expects to be getting 20,000 a day by August...
...better part of half a century, the Materassi sisters had dedicated their lives to the proposition that a pair of ladies' drawers, properly stitched, can be a thing of beauty. Teresa Materassi, in whom femininity had been buried like "a luxury she could not afford," did the stitching...
Sister Carolina, in whom femininity had been attenuated to a harmless affectation, did the embroidery. In the entire region of Florence, no pair was so successful...