Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one afternoon last week, the B-47 City of Merced stood deadly quiet on the parking ramp of the March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif. Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee scream. In their tandem seats under a Plexiglas canopy, Major Horace ("Beau") Traylor Jr., the aircraft commander, and Major Martin Speiser, the pilot, made ready to taxi to the runway. Their green coveralls were soaked through with sweat; it was more than 140° in their compartment. They faced a nerve-shredding test of their...
Prissana and Napit Polpinyo, the Siamese twins from Thailand who were separated a month ago at Chicago's Billings Hospital (TIME, April 11), were learning to walk straight ahead by themselves instead of sidewise in tandem, as they had when they were joined at the abdomen. Their recovery after the successful operation was probably speeded by the presence of their familiar nurse, Jirapon Karsemsak, who will soon return with them to Thailand...
Some 25 minutes later, two winded Yardlings arrived on their tandem to be first in their division, last in the race, but on time to witness the presentation of a silver bowl to the winner, and ribbons to the first three in the racing, touring, and American classes...
...Morse and Neuberger, in or out of tandem, give Oregon the most fascinating pair of Senators currently on Capitol Hill. For sheer showmanship, Oregon's delegation to the upper house will be a No. 1 attraction in the new Congress...
Having twelve handsome young people all athletically in love at once is a little like staging a mixed tandem-wrestle, and the audience works up almost as ruddy a glow as the participants...