Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
...months, Mickey's mother officially clothed the baby for his future work by making him a visored baseball cap, complete with button on the top. Mutt taught him to count by reciting the bases, "first, second, third." At six years, he had his first uniform, cut from a pair of Mutt's old playing pants...
...Jimmy Plinton, a U.S. Negro visiting Haiti, tried to send a pair of pants to the cleaners. This event set off a wondrous chain reaction which 1) revolutionized Haitians' dress habits; 2) started a major new business in Haiti; and 3) turned Jimmy into one of the most popular characters in the little (Maryland-size) Black Republic...
Psychological forms of torture are also used. This month a released political prisoner reported that in front of his cell block, in view of some 40 prisoners, a pair of bloody, severed human hands was left lying all one day on a piece of newspaper...
Last week the first steps were taken to rear a Rockefeller Center-like group of buildings on the site, thus improve all the blighted areas around the old station. The Pennsy announced that it has leased the block-square station land to Manhattan's Uris Bros., a pair of redheaded New Yorkers who in the last five years have become the world's biggest builders of office buildings. By year's end they will control seven buildings valued at $70 million, in which their interest is estimated at $20 million...