Word: twos
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...main force concentrates on Norfolk. Armed with pistols and night sticks, they patrol on foot by twos, ride along in the city's prowl cars, or cover the county roads in trucks. They arrest all drunk and disorderly servicemen and all out-of-uniform sailors...
Morning came, overcast above, brilliant in the streets. As early as 8 o'clock, Ottawa's people began to move toward the broad sweep of greensward in front of the Parliament Building. At first they came by twos and threes. As noon approached, every street leading to the plaza had become a solid, slow-moving river of humanity. Soon, as far as the eye could see. even the rooftops were crowded...
Honey, I won't have to write you about those Minus Twos on my exam papers now because we have a new instructor and he has faithfully promised that he will take no less than three off for each mistake.... No, he does not have red hair...
...Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities like Toledo. Taub told the manufacturers that it was "hope less to come to Washington in twos and threes, each presenting a small fraction of the major problem." But he promised that Toledo could count on defense orders as soon as it got organized as a single factory -machine shop under one roof, punch presses under another...
...Three times twelve tripled twelve times three tripled twenty-twos thrice, triple, twelve times, three thrice, tripled two twice tripled thirty-threes...