Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced Broadway into dependence on temporary "hits" that rapidly draw large audiences and then fade into oblivion before next month's epic. A show that does not promise to be immediately popular with a mass audience is completely impractical. Few can afford to pay $12 or more for a pair of tickets to a show that hasn't been predigested and approved. For example, Candide recently closed to a loss of nearly half a million dollars. On the other hand, Take a Giant Step by Louis Peterson required $70,000 to produce on Broadway and only $6700 for a very...
...Jamaica, which has more than half the land area and population of the new nation-4,411 sq. mi., 1,500,000 people. The island is pulling itself up by a pair of bootstraps labeled tourism and bauxite. But it still has more than 100,000 unemployed. Says Socialist Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley, 63, the half-Irish, half-Negro dean of West Indian statesmen: Jamaica "is one of the problem areas of the world...
...were getting them for the second time, and eleven were three-shot veterans. This last group had received the same type of cancer cells (out of seven types cultivated by Dr. Moore) on the first two occasions, had already shown a high degree of immunity. Now, for their third pair of implants, they received cancer cells of a different type...
...they emptied his pockets, discovered two billfolds, 30 cigarette lighters, a tobacco pouch, two flashlights, three toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, four bottles and two cans of lighter fluid, four spools of thread, one bottle of garlic salt, two tie clasps, three corks, nine pocket knives, two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, two spools of fishing line, 15 assorted fishhooks, twelve defunct .38 cal. bullets, a set of dice and some bobby pins...
...city which was virtually occupied by crushing police force (practically on every other block could be seen a pair of gray uniformed policemen with rifles on their shoulders--while on regu- lar duty they only carry revolvers) on the 17th of January members of "Franco's guard," pistol in hand, broke into the home of Bartolo Masolivar, a 4th year law student, forced him into a car, drove him to the country, and after stripping him, beat him and left him unconscious. Joaquin Jorda, 5th year law student, suffered the same fate...