Word: twos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their hands, eating morsels buried in their purses and pulling levers hour after hour, as if at work in a stamping factory. Most are elderly, but their backs are straight, and their eyes are hypnotically fixed on the spinning fruit as the winning coins hit the metal troughs in twos and tens and -- rarely -- jackpot hemorrhages...
...some good goaltending," Parker said. "We can't give up any three-on-twos or two-on-ones. Lane MacDonald is going to beat someone every once in awhile. We just can't give him two-on-ones often. And we have to put as much pressure on the forecheck as possible...
...Shirt Express, past the half-hour photo store, past the mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...
Well, for the Radcliffe varsity crew team yesterday, everything came in twos, as the heavyweight varsity eight and the lightweight varsity four both placed second and lost by two seconds in their respective Eastern Sprints races on Lake Waramaug in New Preston...
...Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even if he too has actually lost...