Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacLean and Burgess did not come back. When the steamer returned to England, two of its 168 passengers were missing. In the cabins booked by the diplomats, ship's officers found two packed suitcases and a litter of towels and shaving gear. The pair, police later found, walked off the ship and hired a taxi; one of them asked the driver in flawless French to drive to Rennes at top speed. During the 90-minute ride, the two sat in taut silence; they gave the driver a 5,000-franc note, waited for 500 francs' change, rushed...
...family stability is the normal surplus of "unemployed males." Every female penguin gets plenty of propositions. She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions. It takes a long time to break up a penguin home, for a new pair can be formed only after a long period of ceremonial adjustment...
Open & Shut Case. In Houston, after he was picked up for speeding and escaped from the cop who nabbed him, Daniel Martin was arrested again by the same cop, fined $15 for stealing a pair of handcuffs, despite his plea: "He put them on me. I just left...
Although I have no personal interest in the outcome of the drive, I donated a worn but serviceable jacket. It disappeared the next day. A friend of mine gave an old pair of artillery boots. They too disappeared...
Speed & Power. Another Richards tactic is the revival of the almost lost art of base stealing. Richards uses his team's speed for two purposes: 1) to give rival pitchers the jitters; 2) to win tight games. He relies on a pair of fleet-footed rookies, Outfielder Jim Busby and Third Baseman Orestes Minoso (TIME, May 14). Between them, they have stolen 16 bases in 18 tries. What's more, they are constantly turning up on the base paths. Busby (batting average .340) and Minoso (.356), along with Second Baseman Nelson Fox's (.370), give Chicago three...