Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard baseball team halved its twin bill with Boston College yesterday at Soldiers Field, the Crimson had plenty of mixed results to go around...
March Madness, hockey style, energized the Twin Cities. The local newspapers carried slews of stories on the tournament...
...PAUL, Minn.--In the Twin Cities, it will be known forever as the goal that silenced 15,000 screaming Minnesota Golden Gopher fans and their beloved hockey team...
...Hollywood's rigid code of self-censorship. Long kisses were forbidden, adultery always had to be severely punished, and double beds were for sinners in New York City. In Hollywood movies, even happily married couples, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, slept in widely separated twin beds, clad top to bottom in pajamas or nightgown. Such now innocuous four-letter words as hell and damn were proscribed, and Gone With the Wind titillated and sometimes shocked audiences with Clark Gable's final words to Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
Though it liked to think of itself as the capital of sophistication, Hollywood was in fact just as unworldly as such places as Topeka, or Twin Falls, Idaho, where most of its inhabitants came from. The movies they made reflected and gained much of their strength from that innocence, and they resounded with a sincerity that no amount of artifice can duplicate. Would any scriptwriter today dare to type a corny line like this? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because...