Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Photographer Joe Talbot and Reporters James Bellows and Carlton Johnson charged that they had been seized while covering a Klan meeting and forced to drink a pint of liquor apiece (TIME, March 22). Arrested for drunkenness, they had posted bonds, vowed to fight the case to the bitter...
...strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...
...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
...Johnson, 22, both, like Talbot, Navy veterans. What happened after that the newsmen described in print next day. The Klansmen handed them each a bottle of whiskey and ordered them to drink. When they refused, the Klansmen shouted that they would pour the liquor down them. They drank-a pint each within about 30 minutes-surrounded by the threatening, yelling...
Seventy unregistered donors who walked into the PBH blood clinic during the two-day drive, concluded yesterday, sent the campaign to the top of its 200 pint quota...