Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from the North. They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...home town. One out of five could not name California's governor, one out of three wrote, "Has the bell rang?", nearly half did not know how to punctuate "April 15, 1951." Only 40% correctly answered the question: "Frank paid $8 plus 3% sales tax for a pair of shoes. How much did the shoes cost...
DIANA-CHRISTINE, 44 Brattle Street, features these unusual ceramics. Rings are $4.50, earrings, $5.00 a pair, and cuff links, $3.00 a pair...
Ghent townspeople, examining their cathedral's prized possession, noted one startling change. The mystic lamb now has four ears instead of two-the extra pair being the work of an early retoucher. "It would have taken two or three more months to remove the extra ears," explained an official. "And Ghent wanted the painting back...
...through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...