Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, bundled up in a black coat and wearing a pair of frayed white gloves in honor of the occasion, Mrs. Moss patiently took the stand in the Senate Caucus Room and denied again that she was or ever had been a Communist. Senator McCarthy promptly left the room wearing an expression which indicated that he had no time for such trivial matters. But his long-suffering colleagues turned the resultant hearing into a loud and emotional attack on their own chairman's methods...
...Body on the Sand. The story be gan last April, when the body of plump, pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman...
Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped...
Passion for Pacifism. Author de Beauvoir begins by showing the perfect, almost mathematical harmony into which her lovers, Pierre and Franchise, have built their lives. He is an intellectual actor-producer, she an equally intellectual writer. Around this hard-working pair in 1938-39 swirls the theater life of Paris, popping with misfits, eccentrics, and tough careerists. Smug in her harmony with Pierre, Franchise finds it hard to understand why other people's lives are so full of discord...
...Alice and Milly [then] put miniature sets of false teeth into their mouths and leer at each other; I confiscate the teeth. Then Alice puts a pair of spectacles made of scarlet wire on her impudent nose and grins round ... I send her out . . . The class . . . call: 'Goodbye, Alice−aren't you lucky to leave' this boring lesson...