Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Several evenings a week Teacher Hanners held "guidance" sessions, and the boys freely brought him their problems, from abstruse moral ones to a shattered pair of glasses. Jaded prison officials, who had seen hardened criminals come and harder criminals go, marveled at the results. A 20-year-old named Robert, jailed for rape, sat sullenly through his first week in Hanners' class. Inexplicably, he perked up the second week, began drawing cartoons with facility and underwent a drastic change of personality. An incredulous parole officer told Hanners...
...summers later, in a resort near Cannes, Simone met Montand. Defying gossip, the pair promptly set out for Paris. Long after her divorce from Allegret, Simone admitted, "I still have the feeling that I'm living somewhat illegally with the gentleman for whom I left my husband...
...into Frankie Murphy's Ford station wagon and set out with her friends for Starved Rock. They were prepared for a tranquil time: Mildred Lindquist brought her copy of A Field Guide to the Birds; Lillian Getting took a novel, The Lincoln Lords; they had their knitting, a pair of binoculars and a 35-mm. camera...
Cousteau has been traveling ever since. His father, Daniel P. Cousteau, is a witty, urbane lawyer whose job consisted in being factotum and traveling companion to a pair of itinerant U.S. millionaires. The first was James Hazen Hyde, high-living son of the founder of Equitable Life Assurance Society. Back in 1905, as an Equitable vice president, Hyde had given a $200,000 costume party in Manhattan that put the whole insurance business under outraged public scrutiny, brought on an investigation by the New York State legislature. In anger, Hyde sold his stock, huffed off to self-exile in Europe...
...Jungle Discovered. To recuperate, Ensign Cousteau was assigned to shore duty at Toulon, spent hours working strength back into his arms by swimming in the Mediterranean. There in 1936 a fellow naval officer named Philippe Tailliez gave him a pair of goggles used by pearl fishermen. Cousteau put his head beneath the surface. Instantly his life was changed: "There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof...