Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...quiet, buxom spinster who shared her New Orleans house with a pair of cats, Biologist McMillan liked to play the guitar and sing folk music, often drove to Baton Rouge, where she was doing basic research on algae. Of all those who expressed grief at her death, no one seemed more upset than Dr. George H. Mickey, 49, topflight scientist, dean of L.S.U.'s graduate school and head of the zoology department. "All of us at L.S.U. are profoundly shocked by the tragic event," said Mickey, "and are particularly anxious that the case be cleared as soon as possible...
Even after passing the Rocket, Howe still acted like the most modest rookie on the club. But many an expert regards Howe as the world's finest hockey player. Square and solid (6 ft., 201 lbs.), Howe has a pair of thick, supple wrists that can snap one of the fastest shots in the game (120 m.p.h.). What is more, he is a deft playmaker who is so tough he often takes extra turns with Detroit's spare lines, so rugged a body checker that he sometimes substitutes for a defenseman and comes zooming up ice to give...
...column item in the New York Mirror. All Paris was agog at word about a "titled international couple who had a little jewelry trouble lately. It seems that two years ago when the gentleman married his beautiful lady, he bought from an American jeweler of excellent reputation a magnificent pair of canary diamond earrings and four black pearls- of unparalleled size and beauty. This summer the lady noticed the pearls were fading. She took them to several Paris jewelers." Their unanimous verdict was that the pearls had been dyed. Then the diamonds were found to be artificially colored. Result: "When...
...wife visits friends in Paris, drifts into a well-why-not affair with a cafè-society type (José-Luis de Villalonga). Suspicious, the husband invites the lover home one weekend and plays a sneaky, overcivilized game of cat and mouse with the guilty pair...
...like to see my boys train longer, but if I took them out of their factories, they'd never get back in again." Liechtensteiner parents are aghast at the idea of their athletic offspring's losing a month's wages sliding around Squaw Valley on a pair of sticks. The only subsidy that the skiers receive is free Ovomaltine to balance out their diet...