Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...
...Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading U.S. composers. Says Myrick: "He always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick flattered the Queen of Spain into a doubles match (Queen Victoria, with Vincent Richards, beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Myrick...
John Sloan, who is usually tagged as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in Picnic on the Ridge. On a glorious night near Santa Fe, a group of artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...
...Paper Cup. From the skyscraper hotels and high-life restaurants of Miami Beach to country schools and community centers back in "the 'Glades," adults and children lined up from morning until night. It was all free. New York's Lederle Laboratories donated the vaccine. Physicians, nurses, and a host of assorted volunteers gave their services. Paper work was at a minimum. For each person to be vaccinated, there was a short form listing how many shots of Salk vaccine he had had, and for minors, a form for parental consent...
...everything was gratifyingly simple. The vaccine, colored the faintest of pinks by cherry flavoring, arrived in 1,000-cc. bottles (about a quart), enough for 500 doses. A nurse drew 2 cc. (half a teaspoonful) at a time with a bulb-type dropper, put it in a tiny paper cup. Another worker added about a tablespoonful of water-distilled, to guard against the possibility that chlorinated tap water might reduce the vaccine's potency...