Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose readers had probably never heard of the game, crowded stories of the victory into tight sport pages. The London Times, in its famed fourth leader, was moved to recall editorially that Dickens had once written about the game (" 'Very good,' exclaimed Sam Weller as, with his pint of port and his newspaper in hand, he watched the end of a game of racquets in the Fleet Street prison...
...volunteers live in a group of twelve cottages facing Salisbury Plain. Paired off two to a cottage, they have meals delivered at the door, enjoy a free pint of beer or cider daily, newspapers, magazines, unlimited long-distance telephone service, a nine-hole golf links. Only restriction: guests must keep a 30-yard distance from everyone but their cottage partners. Visitors are not allowed unless heavily masked...
Earmarked. In Rome, Italy, Romano Pandolfi, sick & tired of being teased about his big ears, grabbed a razor, trimmed them down to pint size...
Divorced. Elizabeth Brooke ("Princess Pearl"), 33, second daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, former Raja of Sarawak (he ceded his 50,000-square-mile territory to Great Britain seven months ago); by Harry ("Little Hotcha Muchacha") Roy, 46, pint-sized British bandleader (he composed their wedding march, Sarawaki); after twelve years of marriage, two children ; in London...
...slowly flushed clear of Rh blood (though a little remained, mixed with the donor's). Dr. Wiener let the flow continue until the concentration at the outgoing end was 90% new blood; in effect he drained and refilled the baby twice. (A newborn infant has about half a pint of blood.) After two and a half hours he handed back to the mother a healthy, rosy child...