Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powered by a pair of new J58 jet engines, developed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. over the past eight years. But its real secret lies in the metal of which it is largely made: titanium, which can withstand the searing heat that is generated in flight at many times the speed of sound. Titanium had long resisted the best efforts of engineers to fabricate it as the major metal in any aircraft...
...longer with a pair of white flannels, a blue blazer, and a few white tennis shirts. Nearly everyone now owns at least one sports jacket and usually several. Twice as many sports shirts are made today as business shirts, and Cluett Peabody & Co. has just closed down its necktie division, as have all other major shirt companies...
...drive," he sneered. "You get more time to think. Sure, you have to study the course, and you have to downshift, and you have to learn how to brake. But I've always liked shifting gears." The 37-car field included everything from Falcons and Corvettes to a pair of hot new Porsches. But from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark was not there, but Gurney was-in a bright red Lotus 19 with a 375-h.p. Ford Fairlane engine. Foyt's car was an older, rear-engined Scarab (formerly...
...import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over in the water, head down. If a man can't get hold of a good line, he's in trouble. So is a comedy...
...with a touch, a breath, feeling his way into those checking queens like a man fumbling in the dark." But ultimately the technical side of the novel turns on a confrontation of hands that are bet with a foolishness that belies the experience claimed for the players. Against a pair of tens showing, the Kid's opponent matches a $2,000 bet after three cards on the strength of a possible flush. Win or lose, anyone called The Man ought to be called The Boy for doing that...