Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...device is a pair of special magnifiers snapped onto the surgeon's regular eyeglasses, to be lowered into position when needed...
...disturbing the peace after he tried to remove a toy car from a repair shop (he said that it belonged to his son). In a fight with an Aurora justice of the peace. Egan got punched in the nose, lost his glasses, took after his opponent with a pair of scissors. He won such a reputation for his colorful use of abusive and obscene language that the city's Ministerial Association declared "a moral emergency...
...picture's plot is as simple as a skid. A lush (Salyer) lands on The Street from nowhere in particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides...
...best performances were contributed by the members of Harvard's Deathwatch company which featured Harold Scott, Colgate Salsbury, and D.J. Sullivan. They preserved the polish of their work in the Genet play for the Yale showing. Robert Brustein, as Jean, and Carlyn Cahill, as Julie, also turned in a pair of very distinguished performances in the Vassar production of Miss Julie...
...press conference last week, and he made careful plans to speak out. But the first question on the subject sharply illustrated the pettifogging nature of much of the talk about budget cuts. Asked William McGaffin of the Chicago Daily News: "Would you be willing to do without that pair of helicopters that have been proposed for getting you out to the golf course a little faster than you can make it in a car?" At the question Eisenhower showed more anger than most Washington correspondents have ever seen him betray. His face bleached, and then a flush of red spread...