Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarred, crippled man wearing not one but two hearing aids hobbled painfully to the rostrum with the help of a pair of canes. A tail-coated usher darted forward to help hoist him to the speaker's platform. There he grasped a table for support and then gulped a handful of pills. A hush fell over France's Chamber of Deputies as Georges Heuillard, deputy from the Seine-Inférieure, began to speak. His misshapen body and his scarred, waxen face were his honorable credentials...
...Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger or two as hostages...
...pair, a boy about ten and a 12 year old girl, cheerfully bombarded unfortunates below without disturbance for over 30 minutes. Cambridge police finally came to the rescue as a passing patrol car scared them off. The marksmen had attained their vantage point by climbing a ladder at the back of the store...
...also the terminus of the long overland trail from Texas-the Chisholm Trail, named for the half-breed Cherokee trader who marked it out, Jesse Chisholm. It was in Abilene, moreover, that Wild Bill Hickok, the famed scout and gunfighter, roamed the main street as town marshal with a pair of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun...
Winslow, a former state Representative, will pair with Amory's partner, Charles S. Bolster, in the April primaries. The University professor stated that the two candidats, both Boston attorneys, "are presently as enthusiastic about Sisenbower as I am. In any event, they are certain to make a sound and constructive choice for the Republican nominee...