Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left hand, ripping open the husk with the hook, seizing the ear with the right hand, tearing the husk open with the left, snapping the stripped ear off with the right and flipping it against the bang-board of the wagon, all in a single uninterrupted operation. The pair tossed corn with machine-gun precision, hitting the bang-board with a new ear every second or oftener. "Oiyoiyoi, oiyoiyoi!" shrilled one of the astounded French farmers, seizing his spinning head in both hands. When all the corn was husked, everybody gathered around to try out the hooks. Even the local...
...collect it, decides to do away with his wife (Gusti Huber). He devises a neat plan and hires a sound fellow to carry it out while he himself is ostentatiously elsewhere. The murder goes off on schedule-except that it's the wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does not slump, nor chicanery deteriorate, nor sleuthing go to seed...
MASSIMO CAMPIGLI, 57, a Florentine whose Byzantine-looking paintings of young girls have toured the world's art capitals, hang in many of its best museums. His round-faced girls sit rolling yarn, fixing necklaces, posing nude; each with a happy expression, a pair of bright sloe eyes and not a care in the world...
...MONEY I HAVE SAVED DRIVING AUSTINS. The ad quoted a "private letter from [an] anonymous diplomat . . . who used to ornament the Diplomatic Corps," and pictured a man in riding boots, presumably the anonymous diplomat, with 1) a woman, 2) a boy (presumably the lucky Grottie) and 3) a pair of Austin cars...
...person who "names the game" (the all-star House football game in the Stadium November 11) will not be subject to that limitation, however. In addition to the two FREE 50-yard line seat tickets he will win, he will still be eligible to buy his regular pair...