Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months the New York Post has published a pint-size box reporting: "LaGuardia Today . . . flew to Buffalo [or Washington or Boston or Chicago, etc.]." On a good day the Mayor sometimes flies to two cities in different directions (not counting New York City, where he often flies straight...
Tall, lanky Hugh Hyde, number two man on last year's Freshman tennis team, finally met his waterloo in the University tournament as he bowed to pint-sized Jim Jenkins in a straight set match played yesterday on the Divinity Field courts...
...tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yo went the credit. When the Japanese columns first stabbed at his troops General Hsueh had not tried to hold them. To make effective his numerical superiority he tried to outflank the drive, throw his men at the Japanese rear supply lines. As the Japanese drive forced it in, General Hsueh's line strained back like a bowstring. But the ends remained securely anchored deep behind the Japanese flanks...
Disquiet in Oslo reached a crest when 2,000 workers in the Akers shipbuilding yards went on strike. They resented Nazi plundering of milk supplies, "depriving mothers and babies" so that German soldiers in Finland could have their pint...
...bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year-old from Long Beach, Calif...