Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole globe there can hardly be two more intrinsically negligible pieces of real estate than Quemoy and Matsu, a pair of barren islands off the China coast. Yet history has an old trick of throwing its spotlight on obscure spots and thereby illuminating vast, half-hidden conflicts...
...their fellows "giving way so as to conquer." Respectfully shielding myself behind their backs, I watched a balding, mustachioed chap talking earnestly to another student on the mat. A second later, the man with the mustache flipped out one of his feet, twisted his shoulder, and the pair of them spun to the mat in a tangle of arms and legs...
...bright December morning in 1931, Pilot Officer Bader decided to buzz the officers' club at Woodley Aerodrome near Reading, rolled into the turf, and lost both legs as a result of the crash. But after eight difficult years spent learning to move skillfully on a pair of artificial legs, he was back in the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, and during World War II Squadron Leader Bader personally accounted for 22½-German planes. His career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach for the Sky (TIME, Aug. 2). Today...
...Pair of Blue Eyes (Shirley Harmer; M-G-M). With a voice warm and sweet enough to make any passable tune sound good. Songstress Harmer turns this little mood piece (from the film Song 0' My Heart) into a real holiday...
Said a West Coast clothier: "We're on the verge of the greatest revolution the men's clothing industry has ever felt." Revolution was not quite the word, since man's basic garb will still be a pair of pants and a coat. But change there is-a major change unthought of as little as five years...