Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, they haul their laundry bags out of their closets and pick out the least grubby shirt, a pair of argyles that were too big for the man for whom they were intended, a skirt salvaged from a bundle for Britain, and the charred remains of little brother's tennis and furnace-stoking shoes...
Such broad spoofing of radio's best-known institutions is the specialty of Bob & Ray, a pair of deadpan comics whose four programs seem to crop up at all hours of the day and night on NBC's network and local schedule...
...This pair of Harvard students, engaging in a face slapping marathon seeking to wrest the honors from Moscow University in Russia, is a challenge to the common sense of taxpayers to seriously question mounting school costs in America. We here find proof that our school curricula and sillp practices, fostered and promoted under the guise of higher education, is a curious alloy of opposites--a little blending of common sense with a wild hysterical foolishness, promoted or sanctioned by the kaisers of "advanced" education...
...Drumbeats would be incomplete without a mention of the kickline. The spectacle of 14 girls swinging 28 lithe limbs in unison has always been something for audiences to thrill to. Dele Gilmore's line carried off even more intricate steps than last year's platoon; even though one pair was rather unattractive, the precision dancing was a pleasure to watch...
Lait and Mortimer sum it all up very well themselves. "We are reporters, not reformers...we have demonstrated that we are not sloppy workmen at our trade." There is no questioning that. The boys are as proficient a pair of mudslingers as have sniffed around in a long while. "We have nothing to sell but books," they say. That is true, too, but maybe a little less so. For while Lait and Mortimer will no doubt sell carloads of books, they may some day find, along with Mr. Leibling's Hearstling, that they have long since made...