Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned my alarm clock off, I received a frantic phone call from my roommate, who urged me to get down to Harvard Hall right away. I rolled over and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she called again, this time sounding really concerned. So I threw on a pair of sweats and dragged myself through the snow to Harvard Hall, cursing all the way and wondering why I became such a hockey freak...
Harvard could have tied the Penn game February 4 in the Palestra if it had converted a pair of one-and-ones in the least two minutes, but the missed foul shots clinched the 67-63 loss to the Quakers...
...victory surrounded Hemenway Gymnasium Sunday afternoon, when the Harvard women's squash team captured a pair of victories, beating Dartmouth, 9-0, and Franklin & Marshall...
...reputation for being aloof and arrogant, just like Dukakis." Though tough in the sparring, Darman softened his performances with humor. At the end of one mock match, he entertained Bush by donning a tank helmet like the one Dukakis wore in a TV ad. Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes says, "Darman was great: warm, funny and very sharp." Bush agreed. Despite his earlier doubts about Darman's team spirit, the President-elect told his transition team to forget about a list of prospects...
...better weeks. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there, and a Secretary of State can scarcely be expected to have mastered every corner of it in three weeks on the job. Up to now Baker has led a charmed official life. It may have taken a pair of striped pants for him to realize that even he puts his trousers on one leg at a time...