Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers, thirsty and cunning in a news-dry holiday period, were still going strong. Everybody but the cops was enjoying the thrill. But there was not a man in his right mind who dared to buy a cheap watch, a small piece of pipe or a pair of red socks...
...Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, a U.S. independent firm has had as many as 200 men at work, and planned to bring in an offshore drilling barge. Houston's John W. Mecom and three associates were drilling a pair of exploratory wells in Honduras. In Guatemala, where 29 U.S. companies bid for exploration rights after the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas passed what oilmen called a "tough but workable" law, the process of sorting out overlapping concessions was going on, but no drilling had yet begun...
...their isolation men find new values. Serious quarrels are rare, disruptive cliques and factions almost nonexistent. Figuratively and literally, no man walks alone in the antarctic. By sheer necessity men pair off and assume responsibility for each other's welfare under the "buddy system.'' Each depends on the other for everything from detection of facial frostbite (the victim seldom feels it) to help when the hours hang heavy and the winter night stretches ahead into infinity. Few men who have lived such a life come from it unchanged...
...sees his chance for a choo-choo record going glimmering, starts up a siren wail. For a minute, it looks like a stalemate. But the conclusion was never in real doubt. "All right, so we'll get both of them," sighs mother, and plunks down 50? for the pair...
This time, however, Weiland insists the team has shaped up. The blue-line pair of Bob McVey and Bob Owen seems to have solved the defense problem with some outstanding help from an alternate duo of Maurice Balboni and Dick Mc-Laughlin...