Word: pint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs, vanilla and sugar, drives his 1957 white Oldsmobile convertible to the Washington studio, where he runs through the songs for his show. To Dean, country music is a happy thing, and keeps him practicing the advice he gave when he signed off last week: "Grin once...
...blood serum of schizophrenics a substance, which he has dubbed taraxein, that causes symptoms similar to schizophrenia when injected into normal volunteers. To make sure that taraxein really exists in schizophrenics' blood and is not merely a byproduct of laboratory processing of the serum, Heath took half a pint of blood from patients, removed the cells, and directly injected the serum into volunteers. They promptly developed what looked like mild, temporary, schizophrenic symptoms. With similar blood from normal subjects there was no such reaction. Ergo, argued Heath, taraxein (whatever it is) is real, and appears naturally in schizophrenics...
Webster asked Littlefield to do another errand the next day, to go over to the hospital and fetch a pint or so of blood for an experiment. This was a strange request, Littlefield thought, for the professor had never previously needed blood in his experiments. It was not the first strange request Webster had made of him that week. On Monday he had asked several questions about the construction of the vaults under the building, where remains from the dissecting rooms were placed. He wanted to know how the river-tide got into the vaults, or whether it was possible...
...officials emphasize that the donation of a pint of blood is not a painful or uncomfortable experience. It produces no harmful after-effects and resistance to disease is not lowered. In previous drives the University has donated a total of 18,109 pints of blood without incident...
...David's daughter for St. David's day," cried a musical Welsh voice in the bar at Brown's Hotel as its owner raised his pint high. Across the street, their collars turned up against the icy wind, the voters of Carmarthen constituency in Wales were queueing up to cast their votes in Britain's third parliamentary by-election since Tory Harold Macmillan took over as Prime Minister. Under normal circumstances the results would have been easily predictable, for Carmarthen is a Liberal Party stronghold and one of the candidates was pert, jaunty, 54-year...