Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing. To make a good trial, a new charge was added: desertion...
Bill Bliss and Tony Patton0 are the first defense with Jeff Collidge and Jim O'Brien the other back pair. Weiland was especially pleased with Coolidge's play on the R.P.I. trip. Both goalies Brad Richardson and Nate Corning have played in the nets this year, and Weiland has not decided which to send against the Eagles...
...Letdown. The Aussies had cannily broken up this invincible pair in an earlier tournament in order, they said later, to make the U.S. team overconfident. In the match, Schroeder and Trabert did not suffer from overconfidence; they suffered from Schroeder's slipshod play. Schroeder was the only player on the court to lose his service, four times in all. Although generally considered a slam-bang player, Schroeder scored only three placements. Trabert had 17, McGregor had 19, and the indefatigable Sedgman had 24. The Aussies won handily...
...operation for cataracts was successful, but the 70-year-old man in the charity ward at Manhattan's New York Eye & Ear Infirmary still could not see without expensive glasses. Then a hospital worker sat down and wrote a postcard. Last week a pair of thick new glasses arrived and for the first time in twelve years he was able to read. A Christmas card with the glasses bore the name: "New Eyes for the Needy-Short Hills...
Married and divorced twice (two children by the first marriage, one by the second), he lives with a pair of servants in a 15-room Beverly Hills house. He does all the shopping. Afternoons, he works on the two dozen fruit trees that stand on his back lawn; he is a martyr to what Robert Benchley described as dendrophilism, which might be described as tree-tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess...