Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...London's Covent Garden last week, the curtain opened on an intriguing pair of firsts: the first all-British full-length ballet, for which Benjamin Britten had composed his first ballet score. It was written especially for Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova, rising young (23) star of the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
Coach Floyd Wilson then called on his second-string guards, Harrington and Bob Barnett, to put some life into the attack. Harrington then tossed in the next six points for the varsity, to offset a pair of M.I.T. baskets...
...King and Four Queens (Russ-Field-Gabco; United Artists). Clark Gable, known for a couple of decades in Hollywood as "the King," usually courts or is courted by a pair of beauties before he and his favorite finally go into a clinch. This time, instead of having to choose between two beautiful girls, he is pursued by four-a redhead, a brunette and a couple of blondes. But although he likes blondes, brunette and redhead, his favorite color is gold...
Weiland said that if Kelley was benched, either Bob Owen, Bob McVey, or Bill Deford would move up to the first line with the defense positions being handled by the remaining pair...