Word: pairing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely eloquent Richard Russell on down, know it. Even so, Dick Russell, as general of the delaying forces, set up his well-organized willful minority, selecting three teams of six men each who could spell each other in relays of pairs, with each pair holding the floor for four hours at a time...
...around the world." On two of their Arctic surfacings, the crewmen spotted tracks of polar bears, happily went hunting for them. Score: none sighted, none bagged. But they had other adventures. The tougher surfacings and a close scrape against the ice pushed in Sargo's sail, punched a pair of holes in its afterdeck, ripped out a plastic dome in its bow. Once the sub scraped within five feet of the ocean's bottom; another time it came within an ace of being frozen rock-solid...
...morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) second-stringer named Jack McCartan, a former University...
...made it easy to keep prices high, particularly a 30-year-old law forbidding the sale of milk in economy-size half-gallon and gallon jugs. Holding public meetings, going on radio and TV pressuring legislators, the women raised such a rumpus that Connecticut's legislature passed a pair of bills legalizing both half-gallon and gallon jugs. But even then milk prices stayed high until a supermarket chain began a price...
Head made his first pair of metal skis in a Baltimore machine shop with $250 worth of equipment. When an instructor flexed them in the snow for the first time, they broke. But this only convinced Head that he should quit his job, take the $6,000 he had saved and build more metal skis. Week after week during the winter of 1947-48, he sent his skis to Bromley Mountain (Vt.) Ski Pro Neil Robinson and told him to find a way to break them. Most of the time Robinson did. Two years later, Head added a plastic...