Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital issues in the steel strike are the twin threats of inflation and foreign competition, which have stiffened the stance of management toward the steelworkers' bid for higher wages. By last week, the fifth week of idleness for the biggest U.S. industry, these broad matters revolved around a little-known section of the steel contract that has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill. The section: the past-practices clause. Written into contracts since 1947, the clause jealously protects local working practices or customs that have existed regularly over a long period, in effect provides that...
...through the vast expanse of Siberia, the world barely noted the foreign ministers' conference grinding to an inconclusive end in Geneva. In Vienna, young Americans and Russians alike were learning some of the facts of international life at a rowdy, Red-run youth festival. And in their twin expositions-the Soviet in New York and the U.S. in Moscow-the superpowers sought with all the arts of salesmanship and propaganda to convince each other of their strength, wealth and contentment...
...steel industry on a personal basis), unpretentiousness and Pennsylvania Dutch stubbornness. He likes to sing hymns and old folk songs, browse in art galleries, cook in the old-fashioned kitchen of the Victorian, Hawley, Pa. house where he and his wife spend their weekends. He has two married twin daughters. He has the temperament and patience of an experienced trout caster (which he is), the fascination for things mechanical of an engineer (which he is not). He rarely goes on vacation, but likes to stroll the streets of Hawley in khakis, stopping to visit friends or make small purchases...
Viola is the one honest, sincere, and normal person in the play. Yet for most of the time she must go about abnormally disguised as a young boy, who looks like her twin brother Sebastian. The problem was quite different in Elizabethan times, since actresses were interdicted and both roles were taken by young boys. Miss McKenna is able to convey a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness. And more than any one else in the cast, she pays attention to the poetic qualities of the text (though on opening night she sometimes lowered her voice...
...kids, because I was flying a twin-engined Piper Apache across the Atlantic to Paris at the same time he was flying from Casablanca to Los Angeles. Near as I can figure it, we passed within a few hundred miles of each other out over the Atlantic...