Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that, provoked by "improper advances," he had seized the man by the throat and tightened the tie until the man was unconscious. He then tied the ends around his victim's neck and, before leaving, made a stab at the unconscious man's throat with a pair of scissors. He freely admitted his guilt...
Jack McKenna's Dunster team features a heavy line with center Ed Cohen and a pair of 240 pound tackles. Pete Hill and Ed Blodnick. Eliot coach Bill Welch is starting last year's All League quarterback Charles Cabot. His team is reinforced with good sophomores. Odds favor Eliot and Winthrop, but both Adams and Dunster think that the new lineup may chance this year's results...
...Surgeon Price Thomas made a cut beginning about two inches left of the spine, baring the ribs, and an assistant surgeon held the wound open with retractors while the "sterile nurse" (socalled because she wears sterile gloves to handle sterile instruments) handed Price Thomas a cutter something like a pair of rose pruners. With these he snipped a rib. Then he worked around, cut the same rib near the breastbone and removed it, taking care to leave part of the rib sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread...
...Annex sophomores, victims of an early morning visit from a pair of mysterious prowlers, last night charged that Radcliffe had provided "insufficient protection for the residents of 20 Walker Street," and demanded immediate action to make their dormitory safe from early morning intruders...
Just what their intentions were, or what they were looking for--if anything--never became clear, as the pursuers made a basty escape. But the skivvy-clad lad, who claimed to be something called a "Deke," was hurriedly covered up with a pair of blue jeans and transported back to the institution down the river...