Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generations, the sidewalks in front of saloons in Britain's industrial districts have been thronged with children playing melancholy hopscotch while parents, too poor for baby sitters, downed a pint or two behind the swinging doors. (" 'Ere, luv, you play outside 'ere, there's a good girl. Dads and me'll be out in a shake.") In recent years, some enterprising pub keepers have provided waiting rooms to keep the kids out of the cold, but even these fail to make waiting for Mum and Dads a cheerful affair...
...peers. Arcaro says flatly that Willie already ranks with "the greatest in the country." Sharp-eyed old Earl Sande also ranks Willie with the best, and adds that if Arcaro himself "has anything on him, it might be that he is bigger and a bit stronger." For among the pint-sized fraternity of jockeys, sinewy Willie Shoemaker is a half-pint (4 ft.11 in., 96 Ibs.) who eats what he wants, never has to worry, as most of his fellow workers do, about putting on weight...
Miss Gabor made her last appearance on the local scene when she landed from a helicopter last spring to give the first pint in a Harvard blood drive...
...worst of postwar austerity (which Northern Irish shared with the English), residents of the north found the G.N.R. a royal road to the unrationed paradise of the south, where fresh eggs and fresh meat were plentiful, and Guinness only seven-pence the pint (it cost twice as much m Belfast). The G.N.R.'s crack Belfast-Dublin Express came to be known as the Smuggler's Special because of the many travelers who rode south in their old clothes and returned in spanking new threads from Dublin's best tailors. One traveler who made the changeover...
When Mrs. McK., 25, gave a pint of blood for Britain's National Blood Transfusion Service in Sheffield last March, the doctor and nurses who checked her saw nothing unusual. But when technicians typed the blood, they did a double take, and with good reason: Mrs. McK. was the first human being in medical history with a double set of blood groups. Her red cells were 61% type 0 and 39% type...