Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animated rag doll bounded onto the television screen, ogled the camera lens, wagged a pair of aileron ears at the audience and wrapped his rubber legs around the lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt...
...Josh Culbreath, 24, to give the U.S. a sweep of the first three places. Outside the main stadium, but earning points that counted for as much, Bantamweight Charles Vinci of York, Pa. hoisted 753.5 Ibs. aloft and Featherweight Isaac Berger of Brooklyn lifted 776.5 Ibs. to corral another pair of gold medals...
...practice one day in November 1952 and spotted a pretty coed on the U.S.C. tennis courts. Caught off guard, he blurted out: "Lookit all them curves." Properly indignant, Sandra Cordrey told him to go put his shot. But the blunder evolved into romance, and next spring the pair were "pinned." Sandra soon got bored with playing second fiddle to a big iron BB. Often when they went on a date, the shot went along in its little plaid bag. En route to dinner or dance, Parry usually managed to pass a convenient field. He would park, peel off his shirt...
...marriage was arranged, rather vaguely, for some time after the 1955 Pan-American games in Mexico City. Parry figured on a decent waiting period for Mexican red tape. The day after the shot-put competition (which Parry won), the engaged pair went down to the Mexican hall of records to start the paper work...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...