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Word: pairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Favorite Subject. One gay midnight a year ago, Zind was drinking champagne and schnapps in an Offenburg bar when a stranger strolled in, and Zind invited him over. The pair got along famously until 2 a.m., and then Zind began to discourse on his favorite subject: his hatred of Jews. "I ought to tell you," said Kurt Lieser, 47, the stranger, "that I spent the war in a concentration camp, and am Jewish." "What?" Zind exclaimed. "That means they forgot to gas you, too? The Nazis did not gas enough Jews." Two bar companions stepped in to prevent a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Ugly Scar | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...Waterfront. Batista, 57, who customarily works until 5 a.m., had just awakened at 11 a.m. on the day of the strike. At that moment, rebels grabbed a pair of Havana radio stations long enough to put out the call. "This is the final blow against the dictatorship," said the rebels' Communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Strongman's Round | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Dividing twelve white Leghorn hens into three groups of four, Smith and Hale allowed the natural pecking orders to establish themselves. When each hen clearly understood its rank in society. Smith and Hale selected pairs of hens from each group. To the wings of the high-ranking hen of each pair, they attached wires from an electric-shock device. Then both were put in a pen with a single dish of grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pecks in Reverse | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Pajarito and his countrymen had been completely convinced by a compact (5 ft. 3 in.; 124 Ibs.) little man whose square name is Okon Bassey Asuque, Esq., M.B.E.* His ebony fists are probably the swiftest pair of weapons in the prize ring, and his Oxford-accented speech is certainly the rarest: "When I awoke the morning of the fight and saw it was raining, I actually wept. I was emotionally prepared to fight that night, and a delay would have been annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Razzberry for Ricardo | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...ever stay on a short pair in draw. You need at least two kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One of a Kind | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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