Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the Great Lakes in Ontario's twin cities, Port Arthur and Fort William (pop. 55,000), the cry of secession was heard last week. The man who raised it was Fort William's ex-Mayor Chisholm Ross, who objects to being governed from Ontario's capital, smug and self-centered Toronto, 800 miles southeastward...
Secessionist Ross urged fellow twin citizens and Northwestern Ontario to quit Ontario, to join neighboring Manitoba, whose capital, Winnipeg, is only 400 miles away. Acting Mayor J. E. Fryer thought it a good idea, cried: "The greatest frontier in Canada is being governed by people who don't know and don't care." In Port Arthur, another stouthearted Westerner, Mayor Arthur Cox, wanted Manitoba to seize all of Ontario as far east as Sudbury, 700 miles away...
...really hit their stride until the beginning of 1944. In the three months since Jan. 1, they have flown about as many missions, dropped about as many bombs as in the previous 16½ months. In January and February German single-engine fighter production was cut by two-thirds, twin-engined fighter production slightly more ("that does not mean, however, that . . . production capacity has been permanently reduced to that extent...
Both mothers were put in the same hospital room. (New York Daily News headline MOMS OF QUADS, TRIPS IN TWIN BEDS.) The hospital's staff was so demoralized by excitement that the authorities had to put up a sign: "Keep away." It was directed at the student nurses...
...star (an Omaha brewer's daughter) in the late '20s, married her at his family's rural, palatial "Chatsworth" (Derbyshire) in 1932, soon established her in their cliff-topping Irish pile, complete with salmon stream, 200 rooms and (she said) one bath. Their daughter (1933) and twin sons (1937) lived only a few hours...