Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Francis A. Cherry, who knew about those old days at Commonwealth College. Faubus panicked, lied; he declared publicly that he had never gone to the school. When Cherry proved it, Faubus admitted everything, said he went there because it was the only school a poor boy with one pair of pants could go to. had left when he found out what kind of place it was. In 1954, the year of revulsion against McCarthyism. the incident in liberal-reaching Arkansas became a Faubus asset. Certified liberals, including Arkansas' segregationist Senator William Fulbright, rushed to Faubus' side...
...bespectacled Richard Lewis Neuberger hove into the U.S. Senate as Oregon's junior Senator in 1955, a new team was born. Capitol Hill sensed that Democrat Neuberger and Republican -turned -Independent -turned -Democrat Senator Wayne Morse were as ideologically alike as two juicy Oregon apples, quickly dubbed the pair "Morseberger." Last week there were signs that the Morseberger was beginning to crumble. Both Senators denied reports that they were feuding. But in the same breath both admitted that they were more and more seeing eye to eye on less and less...
With a mob of newsmen, lawyers and top Teamster officials trailing behind, chunky James Riddle Hoffa breezed into the spacious, glass-paneled lobby of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Washington headquarters and disappeared through a pair of bleached-mahogany doors. Behind him waddled watery-eyed Teamster President Dave Beck. Symbolic it was that Ninth Vice President Hoffa unceremoniously pushed in ahead of his nominal chief. Dave Beck, his power dwindled, is No. 1 Teamster in title only, and he is scheduled to give up even that title to Hoffa when the union's convention meets in Miami Beach Sept...
...drama critic). She made it clear at the offset that she was not qualified to talk about TV at all, "but like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs me is when, instead of the announcer, we are given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually the boy stops nibbling at the girl's earlobes long enough to murmur huskily: 'Darling, have a Wonderborough, they're milder because they are made only from the tender center leaf.' 'Yes, dear.' she purrs back...
...year was an unemployed musician named Buddy Walker, and Buddy was impressed with the gangly youngster's ferocious skill. He went to a friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public courts, and her performance was phenomenal. The other players quit their games to watch. In her first time on a tennis court, Althea...