Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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London's Heathrow Airport was jammed for three days with 10,000 shivering passengers grounded by an icy fog. Stretches of the Danube froze over, trapping countless vessels. Drifts blocked approaches to the world's longest underpass, the Simplon twin railway tunnels between Switzerland and Italy. In France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French...
...selfless wonder who would do anything for "Pop." the kindly old coach. The hero was humble, would blush when bussed by a cheerleader, and was forever uttering inspiring words like "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." For him, a big night on the town was a twin bill at the Bijou and an extra-thick malted milk. He was the All-America boy. from his crew cut and three-button blue suit right down to his sweat socks and brown loafers...
Born. To Alan Bates, 36, handsome star of Georgy Girl, The Fixer and Women in Love, currently playing Hamlet at the Nottingham Playhouse, and Victoria Bates, 28: twin sons, their first children; in Nottingham...
Writing a flawless murder mystery for the stage is probably rarer than committing the perfect crime. Anthony Shaffer has done it in Sleuth. Shaffer, twin brother of Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), has written a thriller that is urbanely clever, unashamedly literate, clawingly tense and playfully savage. If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best...
...usefulness and morality of violence at home and in Viet Nam have become dreadful, Siamese-twin preoccupations of a divided American consciousness. A corrosively partisan debate concerning them has just been joined by two scholar-essayistsPulitzer prizewinning Historian Richard Hofstadter, who died last month after completing this volume with the help of a young colleague, and Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, 62, who served with the rank of brigadier general as chief U.S. counsel at the Nuremberg Trials...