Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, over the past five years things have gone from bad to worse in Rumania. Last January, for the second time since the Communists took over, there was devaluation of the currency. Money which could have bought a pair of shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both...
...thin mustache and the prominent nose that terminates in a kind of bulb are even more of a Romanoff trademark than his coat of arms. His most recent crest (supplanting an elaborate compound that included a sheaf of wheat, a gargoyle and a Martini glass) is a chaste pair of back-to-back R's topped by a regal crown...
...hungered for freedom, but had no way of making their wishes known. In one compound where anti-Communists had got the upper hand, the leaders announced they would hold a preliminary screening of their own. They called for repatriation volunteers; when two loyal Communists stepped forward, the pair was set upon and done to death...
...Churchill the World War I battalion commander who bought up one French town's "entire seasonal production of peach and apricot brandy." Above all, there is Churchill the phrasemaker, who could beat even Bernard Shaw to the verbal draw. Before an opening night, Shaw once sent Churchill a pair of tickets with a note saying: "Come to my play and bring a friend, if you have a friend." Churchill sent back the tickets with the message: "I'm busy for the opening, but I'll come on the second night, if there is a second night...
...Pinch. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Roger A. Phillips got a divorce after telling the judge that "the only thing my husband bought for me in all our married life was a pair of shoes-and they hurt...