Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with the first date was that Tom had his clothes on. On the second occasion, explained Barbara, "I see him at the Sunset Plaza swimming hole. He's in a pair of bathing trunks. Honey, I just take one look at him and positively flip." She sighed. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys...
...suggested that capricious appetite is more likely to come from family tensions than from a dislike of certain foods. In Emotional Health, a young man discovered that his heart pains could be traced to his feeling of insecurity at being separated from his parents. In This Charming Couple, a pair of newlyweds were shown to be in love, not with each other, but with the image of what each wanted the other...
...never collide, but when they come close enough they attract one another and swerve off their former courses. This is because the high-pressure area between them is exhausted by the sucking effect of the two circular storms. So the barometric pressure drops while the pressure outside the storm-pair remains high. This unbalanced condition pushes the two storms closer. At the same time, their violence decreases because of the lack of enough air pressure to keep them spinning as fast as before...
...Venice last week, a pair of orchestra seats for the premiere of Composer Igor Stravinsky's first full-length opera was fetching as high as $500 on the black market. Operagoers and critics came from all over Europe and the U.S. In spite of all this interest, the first-night reaction to The Rake's Progress was one of happy surprise. The harsh and riotous Stravinsky rhythms of other years (e.g., in The Firebird, The Rite of Spring) were missing. The Rake's Progress sang with old-fashioned melody...
...reign of Edward VII, the rakish son of this sober pair, is wittily described in the imaginary diary of a putative secretary to the King-though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince...