Word: twos
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They passed silently, by ones and twos. The crowds began to break up just before a whisper ran down Beacon Street. "Clarence, it's Clarence. Is it Clarence?" Clarence DcMar was coming. The crowd held together for just a few more minutes while the old man puffed by, tired, but smiling. For DcMar the applause was possessive. He turned into the pre-dusk cocktails-and-dinner hour of Commonwealth Avenue, and disappeared between two taxicabs. Behind him, Fred Murphy, a very young man from Dorchester, dragged himself up the next to last hill of the race, the trestle just west...
...Rescue. In scattered twos and threes the airmen painfully worked their way down to the beach. The wood was too wet for fires. Continuing bad weather hampered search craft. But in the afternoon of the second day, the Canadian fishing ship Cape Perry sighted two of the men signaling from the shore, and in a short time it had picked up ten. Late the same day, a detail from the Canadian destroyer Cayuga reached Trippodi, who was by now delirious, suffering from exhaustion, shock and frostbitten feet. In all, twelve were rescued...
...ones and twos, wounded or half-frozen, eight more were tracked down. They left a lot of their blood in the snow. A prison guard and a rancher were also shot during the long night, but 24 hours later only one man was still on the loose. He was 29-year-old Jimmy Sherbondy, who had once killed a policeman...
...concrete-housed Americans as it was for bamboo-sheltered Japanese. He stresses that the only inaccuracy in his description, which includes 300,000 killed and a host of wounded that would tax hospitals as far as St. Louis, is that the bombs will "never again come in ones or twos...
...were the city's most colorful exiles, the remnants of the few hundred Mexicans who had volunteered to fight with France. There was no space for them on returning troopships. The others had been able to get back in ones and twos, as passage offered. The 60 were still waiting...