Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...
Goshen's well-to-do E. Roland Harriman, co-owner with Major Elbridge Gerry (now overseas), got the one-year custodianship of the gallon-sized Hambletonian "cup," and a pint-sized replica for keeps. These he probably valued more than Titan's $27,608.33 share of the purse, which he needs less than Titan needs...
...warm night this summer Barney ordered the band to fanfare Loch Lomond. A chubby little Alice-in-Wonderland, carrying a pint-sized harp, skipped to the platform and hopped to a high yellow-leathered stool. A white spot picked up a white face, surrounded by carrot hair which fell halfway to the girl's waist. Said she: "This is an Irish harp. With it I will sing you a very tiny song...
...priority insecticide. Recently citizens of Media and Swarthmore, Philadelphia suburbs, were astonished: two of the towns' hardware stores offered bottles of DDT for sale across the open counter. The solution was just right for killing flies and mosquitoes. The stores did a land-office business at $1 per pint. Then WPB heard about it and asked grimly: where did the stuff come from...
...Pegasus, twinkling Mazda stars, eight signs of the Zodiac) gleamed as bright as new. The big arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye. The redecoration was finished, without mishap, by 30 workmen standing on the largest suspended scaffold ever built...