Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed down except for an occasional cabbage or flower counter, and Viennese eat about as much in one day as an American eats for breakfast. The weekly ration (except for heavy workers) consists of one loaf of bread, two ounces of dried meat, three ounces of fat, a cup and a half of flour, a cup and a half of dried peas and five ounces of sugar. Many Viennese know that they would not be eating at all this month if it had not been for Clark's efforts, but, as traditional Raunzer (gripers), they are now telling each...
...Mexico's Davis Cup brother act-Rolando and Armando Vega-took a deep breath and blew Canada out of the running without losing a set. The U.S. team, which swallowed the underweight Filipinos in the other American zone Davis Cup playoff, must now tangle with the Vegas...
...Wimbledon, red-haired Pauline Betz of the U.S. Wightman Cup team slammed drive after drive past 23-year-old Jean Bostock, best of Britain's women players. The U.S. team did not lose a set in seven matches...
...Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more tempting the way they're dressed). He recommends the Italian war movie Open City and ponders the perfume business ("We're both selling froufrou and sex but their advertising makes mine look like Sunday School stuff...
Gulp. In Rockville, Conn., Frank Swallow was named head of the Logan Drinking Cup Division, U.S. Envelope...