Word: pint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slacks, sandals, open-throated sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner...
Refill. In Wellington, New Zealand, an anonymous blood donor called on Dr. John Mercer to donate a pint, was pronounced anemic, left with a pint more blood than when he arrived...
...year's-end Treasury surplus, steadily rising exports and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865, the Tories were able last spring to free the pound, lower income and purchase taxes, even reduce by 2? the price of the Englishman's beloved pint. If Gallup is correct, the Tories might not only win a third consecutive term in office-something no party has yet accomplished in British history-but might even increase their House of Commons majority...
...casts his vote for the Col de la Traversette, but analyzes 30 different books that have proposed no fewer than twelve different Alpine passes for Hannibal's crossing. The most popular ones: Mont Genevre, Mont Cenis (Napoleon's theory), and the treacherous Col Clapier. Last week a pint-sized re-creation of Hannibal's horde wound its way through the French Alps toward Clapier pass, bent on proving that Hannibal could have used that pass, elephants...
...July 20), scrawled a "confession" for a Dublin Sunday newspaper. "I'm neither dead, dying, drunk nor dotty," wrote he. ". . . It is true, however, that I am an alcoholic." Why does he tipple? "First, because I like the stuff. Secondly, because I like company, and thirdly, because a pint of orange or lemon juice is twice the price of a pint of stout...