Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time at the press reception, and again at the rink, where she remembered me. She asked me it I didn't want to borrow a pair of jeans (I was wearing a skirt) and insisted that I at least share her blanket...
...biologists learned that the gene is actually composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) a complex molecule that forms the chromosomes in every living cell. The DNA molecule is shaped like a spiral staircase-a double helix connected by steps, or links. Each of the thousands of links consists of a pair of mutually attracting chemical bases. Although only four different kinds of such bases are found in DNA, they can be arranged along the helix in an enormous variety of sequences. Each of these sequences contains genetic information that determines, for example, whether a child will have blue eyes or whether...
...summer, in Cambridge, I thought I'd make jewelry for money. I discovered that it took, say, four hours to make a pair of earrings. But a retailer wouldn't be able to ask more than six dollars for the pair. Which meant I would get three. I gave up the business. The alternative was to make the same thing over and over. which would have been efficient but boring. Of course, Alexander Calder and Salvador Dali sell their jewelry as Art, and get considerably more than six dollars per piece...
...unceremoniously booted out of the car. Seeking shelter from a storm, the beggars are transported to the 14th century, where a heretical sect seeks salvation through orgy. At an inn, a priest (Francois Maistre) defines the dogma of transubstantiation-and then is carried off by a pair of asylum attendants...
Blythe lets the people of the village speak for themselves. The 50 presented (verbatim, we are assured, although their extraordinary eloquence sometimes suggests the author possesses a magic tape recorder) range from an 82-year-old illiterate recluse to a pair of teen-age buddies, one a forge apprentice, the other a farm worker. All are brilliantly individualized. Not a mute inglorious Milton or a Cold Comfort Farm codger...