Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small irregularities in the motions of these distant wanderers, that there was still another, even fainter, planet. Astronomers calculated a probable orbit, and in March 1929 young Clyde Tombaugh took up the search. He examined scores of telescopic photographs, each showing tens of thousands of star images, in pairs under the blink comparator, or dual microscope. It often took three days to scan a single pair. It was exhausting, eye-cracking work-in his own words, "brutal tediousness." And it went on for months. Star by star, he examined 20 million images. Then...
Prairie Populists. The biggest factor in Humphrey's re-emergence is his unusually close personal rapport with L.B.J. Humphrey, 54, and Johnson, 57, are a pair of old prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
...second was Wang Yu-ts'ai, who stole a pair of rubber shoes. While on a working assignment, he once ate an extra bun stuffed with meat, and the Deputy Commander fiercely shouted at him: "Who gave you permission to eat that extra bun?" Later, his old disease, epilepsy, broke out twice as a result of these emotional disturbances. Wang took his own life...
...Wholesale in 1962, is still squawking because David bought her shoes by A. S. Beck instead of Capezio. Carol Channing reports that one night when she was slipping out of the Hello, Dolly! stage door in a full show costume that included an expensive pair of dancing shoes that Merrick had bought for her, he demanded indignantly where she was going. "To do a benefit," she explained. "Not in my shoes!" he bellowed. With a sneer, she took them off and started out in her stocking feet. Then, with a smirk, he picked her up and carried...
...players are about the hottest numbers in the business: Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. They are negotiating as an inseparable matched pair for a three-year contract that would total $1,000,000, or $167,000 each per season-$42,000 more than baseball's highest-paid player, Willie Mays, is getting...