Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also in these big cities where it is easiest to buy consumer goods. Malia, for instance, lost his pair of nail clippers in Kiev, and there was not even a pair of scissors in the biggest department store in town. And in Leningrad, he bought the last pair of gloves in the biggest department store there. Both these items were available in abundance in Moscow. Similarly, it is only the five or six largest cities in Russia which have television...
...into the Flies. During the pianist's first selection an odd audience (of New York City Ballet dancers) entered, carrying folding chairs. There were: a deep-down music lover who listens a la Rodin, a pair of candy-sucking bobby-soxers, a long-legged young thing who practically climbed into the piano in her love of music (Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq), a bored couple and, finally, a young fellow who trampled all the other concertgoers while trying to find his seat. At that point the Chopin medallion zoomed up into the flies and madness descended...
...cash. On NBC's The Big Surprise, Rear Admiral Redfield Mason, U.S.N., 51, on active duty at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, broke through for the top award of $100,000 by naming six groups of women from Greek and Roman fables. And William and James Egan, a pair of outsized* lawyers from Hartford, Conn., were poised only a step away from the jackpot of CBS's The $64,000 Question...
...milling and finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with a possibility of error. North American's new skin mill has worked out so well that the Air Force has ordered 48 more for U.S. aircraft plants, will install some automated giants that...
Captain Jim Jorgensen was the only Crimson swimmer to take a first place. He took two, breaking a pair of his own Crimson records in the process and establishing himself clearly as the best middle-distance man in the East...