Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringes, e.g., profits from sales of the convention program, hotel and working space for the convention staff. Going home to prepare for the first political convention in the city's history, happy Angelenos looked forward to snagging a second. With TV networks lobbying for a cost-cutting pair of conventions in the same hall, the G.O.P. might also choose Los Angeles' new sports arena...
...since the heyday of Andrea Mead Lawrence have U.S. woman skiers offered notable competition for the talented European girls. But last week in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, ski buffs were talking enthusiastically about a pair of pretty 20-year-olds from New England who have set the skiing fraternity on its ear. At Grindelwald, Switzerland, the week before, Penny Pitou had won the downhill and combined championships, and Betsy Snite had taken the giant slalom, finished second to Penny in the downhill. Bubbled Betsy: "We came to Kitzbühel to find ourselves famous...
...country girls grew up not far apart, Penny in Gilford, N.H., Betsy in Norwich, Vt. Both were on skis early, Penny using barrel staves with canning-jar rubber bands nailed on for bindings, Betsy with a pair of toy skis. Both grew deadly serious about skiing, wangled time off from high school to attend meets. Both were good enough to make the 1956 Oympic team, where they ran headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny...
...want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons, is made up of two or more interlocking 7-ft. by 11-ft. cabins or decks that are expected to retail below $2,000 per pair...
...pieces, Demus played "low" (the bass part) and Badura-Skoda "high" (the treble), in others they switched positions. Since the bass player invariably tends to underpedal to avoid thickness, the pedaling throughout was done by the treble player. When they intertwined their arms in passages of labyrinthine difficulty, the pair presented the bewildering aspect of a two-headed Siva...