Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen who succeeded in getting to Quemoy (see below) reported that no significant shipping had reached it since the Communists opened up their artillery assault three weeks ago. Five days later, in response to the Communist blockade, two U.S. heavy cruisers and six U.S. destroyers escorted a pair of Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy's three-mile limit in broad daylight. Said Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Now the problem of keeping the sea lanes open in the Formosa Strait is up to the Seventh Fleet...
Sweeping through a subarctic fog one morning last week, the Icelandic patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from...
...meeting with Adenauer ended, Strauss shot out of the chancellery again, pulled up beside Hahlbohm's pedestal. "Give me your name," growled Franz Josef. "I shall see to it that you disappear from this corner." True to his threat, Strauss promptly fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding...
...enough to eat. Not that you would have any fun with the meals eaten by even upper-class Russians. But they have plenty of healthy food-bread, meat, vegetables, even fruits and delicacies at prices which people can afford. People are much better dressed. I saw not a single pair of the crude bast sandals, visible everywhere 20 years ago. The clothes chiefly lack elegance and charm, but in most cases they are sturdy. Housing, though still bad, is better than it was. Moscow's 5,000,000 people mostly have elementary privacy, in Russian terms, i.e., not more...
...children hide pennies from their aunt until they have saved enough to buy a pair of brushes and three cans of shoe polish. For a short while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...