Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance is the exact opposite of the common conception of a hangman; to see him in one of the local pubs drinking his pint of ale, one would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself...
...cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer but chief chemical engineer for 22 of the 30 years he has been with the corporation; Secretary Herman Moekle; Treasurer B. J. Craig and Purchasing Agent Charles Carroll...
...Founded in '76, Reborn in '48" is the motto that adorned the old Daily Princetonian banner when Nassau's undergraduate journalists changed the name of the wartime Bulletin January 5. Since September, when students began to expand the pint-sized news letter, the thrice-weekly sheet has amassed 57 progenitors, 17 of whom are executives...
Lipiec's claiming raids became so fiercely frequent that he replaced Hirsch Jacobs, leading U.S. trainer for eleven of the twelve previous years, as the turf's prime pirate. But since taking up headquarters in Gulfstream's barn F, horse racing's pint-sized pirate has slipped a bit. His claiming score: three acquired, nine lost to other claimers. Size of present stable: 17 head...
Last week it appeared that Radio Lux would go back to its old ways. Pint-sized Jacques LaCour-Gayet, representing Radio Lux's French stockholders, said in Manhattan: "Radio Luxembourg will be very glad to accept American advertisers...