Word: paired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
...With a pair of enormous binoculars dangling from his neck, President Harry Truman trotted around Maryland's Andrews Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders...
Three days later, the Knesset elected Chaim Weizmann Israel's first President (so far, his office has been provisional). He was given a ten-inch silver key to the city and a pair of 17th Century scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon across the road leading to Jerusalem. For Weizmann, as for his Zionists, it had been a long road...
...brigadier in command says cheerily: "I've got a job for you . . . We want to get our armor on the move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching up out of a mass of brick and timbers . . ." and very little else of the sth Battalion. But the British tanks, "their...