Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest at the church of Mary Without Stain...
Last year the nation's 8,600 U.S. chinchilla breeders did a total business of $10 million, selling live animals to each other and to newcomers in the game. Prices are high, ranging up to $1,500 a pair, and profits are good. But nobody will really know for another five years whether the animals are actually worth anything...
Other success stories are hardly less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high...
...nurse and doctor were busy giving the pair first aid. "I wake up, I find blood on me and my friend," said the English-speaking Serb...
Researcher A. C. Nielsen this week dropped a pair of blockbusters...