Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas Senator branded the pair's performance a "flagrant abuse" of the Fifth Amendment, directed his staff to prepare contempt proceedings, expressed the hope that the test case might be carried, if necessary, to the highest court in the land. He did not believe, McClellan said, that a witness "is entitled to invoke the Fifth Amendment unless he can also state under oath, without perjuring himself, that he honestly believes that if he answered the question truthfully the truthful answer might tend to incriminate him." South Dakota's Karl Mundt, for the Republicans, was quick to join McClellan...
Infernal Triangle. In Mexicali, Mexico, police jailed Pedro Maldona de Valdez after he stole a pair of trousers from a dry cleaners and gave them to a friend -who took them immediately to the cleaners to be pressed...
...stake was their marriage. After six childless years with Soraya, the Shah, whose only child is a daughter by his first wife Fawzia, is growing desperate for a male heir. If Soraya is doomed to remain barren, say the Shah's intimates, a divorce, despite the royal pair's deep affection, is more than likely...
Just Packing. In Rochester, ordered by a judge to leave town right away after he was caught in an attempted burglary, George Williams, 22, was nabbed 14 hours later repeating the crime, explained that he was looking for money and a new pair of shoes for the trip...
...That Binds. In Philadelphia, Sam Bookbinder, who always gives a dime to the old shoelace seller by his famed restaurant, but never takes a pair, reported that one day, receiving his dime, the oldster said: "I hate to bring this up, sir, but the laces...