Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report discussed the studies made in cooperation with Dr. Mary I. Watanabe of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Research and Development Laboratories. The pair concentrated their experimentations on thoracic muscles, which reportedly move insects' wings at rates up to 1,000 beats per second...
Sometimes Utsugi found it necessary to introduce the sordid business of jail. At one flower-viewing he nabbed a thief who had filched a pair of ladies' bloomers, and hauled the miscreant off to headquarters. All in all, he captured close to 3,000 Nip dips, including the acknowledged master of them all, Ito Tamotsu. These incidents were usually conducted in a spirit of professional courtesy. "Ah, Tamotsu," said Utsugi when he copped the notorious Ito with his hand in an alien pocket for perhaps the 19th time, "I have caught you once again." "So you have," acknowledged Tamotsu...
...again. He had discovered her in a dirty clothes hamper, a rumpled pillow, a tavern jukebox. "Anything can be beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak hangars and dingy flats of La Guardia Airport seen across turgid Flushing...
...simple speeding violation was the downfall for the pair. Because of their excessive speed, a Metropolitan District police car began to chase them...
...that he was tired, and went to bed. Around 2 a.m., four officers called for him. He dressed in the dark; there was a shaky laugh when a nervous aide who thought he was holding the chief's jacket tried to help him slip his arms into a pair of trousers. The conspirators climbed into a car and headed for Camp Columbia. At the gate, the driver leaned out and said: "It's Batista! Are you with us?" The sentry joined the revolt on the spot...