Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunt when he spoke at all. There was little feeling in his face: in the hottest moments of violent polo he was deadpan. He seldom took a drink, never smoked. He left a wife, the former Margaret Mellon (niece of the late Andrew), two daughters, Peggy and Louise and twin sons, Thomas and William...
...lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
That night in Moscow 548 guns thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...
...husbands and wives sleep in a double bed, but 42% of the wives think twin beds would be preferable...
...hoary attack on twin beds was repeated last week by Chicago Woman's Court Judge Frank E. Donoghue. Lecturing a quarreling, childless couple, the judge cried: "In [our parents'] day, no one ever heard of a husband and wife sleeping in different beds. Juvenile delinquency was hardly ever known. . . . Our parents trundled off to bed fairly early, and the children followed as a matter of course. [But] the unholy system of twin beds . . . worked a mighty revolution in the marital relationship . . . creating millions of childless homes . . . broken homes . divorces...