Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean war began, six months after the President proclaimed a national emergency, there is no trace of stern austerity, though the nation is both fighting a big war and mobilizing against the threat of a bigger one. Stores still bulge with everything from aluminum ski poles at $7.95 a pair to metal-hulled cabin cruisers at $5,500 each. Most corporate profits are at record-breaking levels or close to it. So are prices-and so too are wages. Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell itself-for the moment, at least -that it had never...
...Critic" stars Hurd Hatfield as Dangle, the aficionado of the theatre, and Jerry Kilty as Puff, the playwright. This pair mugs and gestures delightfully through a rehearsal of Puff's ludicrous tragedy, "The Spanish Armada...
...When the pair emerged on the street the next morning, the Washington cops were scouring the city for them; young Gilbert had gotten to a police station by 8 a.m., had pointed to Irwin's picture on a "Wanted" poster, and told the whole story. Yet no one spotted the fugitive and his captive. Irwin hocked Gilbert's watch and the engagement ring for $15, and forced the girl into a bus. Irwin grew confidential again. He was going to rob a rich uncle in Doylestown, Pa. and "give...
...country's expense, on bribes from a wealthy Austrian railroad man. Midhat appealed to the Sultan's conscience. The Sultan returned the bribes and sulkily fired Midhat. Soon afterwards, in 1876, Abdul Aziz was deposed by his nephew Murad V. Abdul Aziz promptly killed himself with a pair of scissors. Murad lasted three months; then he was deposed by his brother Abdul Hamid...
...delegates met under the shade of apple trees in a Burlington, Vt. garden where Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin and his wife Mildred topped off the proceedings by cutting their golden wedding anniversary cake. Among the anniversary gifts: a gold thimble studded with diamonds for Mrs. Austin, a pair of gold picture frames from the White House...