Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot of ale. Near Shrewsbury he donned a pair of hastily bought gum boots for a plowing and hedging contest, sloshed over 17 acres, talking farming...
Failing to secure reprieve in this direction, slighted lacrossemen (and others) might go back to the H.A.A. extravagance. It is reported, for example, that every member of the hockey squad receives a free pair of skates from the H.A.A., that tennis players get two free racquets apiece (ditto squash players and racquets), and that the H.A.A. pays three men overtime wages to collect blocking dummies from Soldiers Field after football practice everyday...
...gratification is not love, the golden pair find after 146 pages of satisfying themselves. "It was as though, for the first time, we saw what we were doing. It seemed that we were not merely lying locked in that hard merciless embrace of pain and love. But we were also standing above somewhere, watching. We knew what we would do; we did it; we looked back upon it. We had never had to love with perspective before. It spoiled...
...watching grass grow. Between yawns, the New York Herald Tribune's, Columnist Red Smith got off a series of wryscracks that hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
...recast Esquire is the man who made the mold in the first place: furrow-browed, loquacious Arnold Gingrich, 54, founding editor and present publisher. Gingrich was just 29 in 1933 when he put together the first issue of the magazine with a pair of Chicago men's-wear trade publishers named David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows...