Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engaged in duels with their tormentors. A Legion prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...
...maneuver gained him a head start on the rush of students down the center aisle. Once in the street, he strode rapidly -his black gown billowing behind his grey flannel trousers-to the nearest pub for a pint...
Clive Staples Lewis was engaged in his full-time and favorite job-the job of being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...
...Manhattan last week, 500 delegates to a convention of the American Naturopathic Association formed the American Vegetarian Party and nominated a 1948 presidential candidate. Their man: Dr. John Maxwell, 84, Jove-bearded, pint-sized proprietor of a Chicago vegetarian restaurant, who says he has tasted no meat for 45 years. He hoped to get some 5,000,000 votes; 3,000,000 from vegetarians, the rest from "prohibitionists, anti-vivisectionists, anti-cigaret groups and other people of similar high moral principle...
...celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...