Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountain Dynasts. When Kentucky was becoming a state, a pair of tall, silent brothers from South Carolina crossed Daniel Boone's Wilderness Trail and settled in the foothills beyond Cumberland Gap. Ever since, the descendants of Malachi and Edward Cooper have been prominent in the affairs of Pulaski County...
...chinchilla is a cuddly little South American animal that multiplies rapidly (three to six offspring a year). The number of chinchilla raisers has multiplied almost as fast in the last few years. Former G.I.s, clerks and housewives bought the high-priced animals (up to $1,500 a pair) and raised chinchillas in the happy belief that the fur would take over part of the mink market and make them rich...
...aging ladies with whom she rooms are a sweet-and-sour pair of spinster sisters. The sour one treats embroidery as the first law of life, but the sweet one clucks over Nora like a mother and puts in a word now and then about Peter Lynch, the headmaster at Nora's school, and what a nice husband he would make...
...Marciano was getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...
...often worn somewhat like a life preserver and mostly goes oompah. One thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow in the audience who hopes to see a pair of pigeons flutter wildly out of the bell at first blast...