Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first things about Clary that startle an audience are his broad shoulders, pint size (5 ft. 1 in.) and graphic homeliness. An audience may expect almost anything from such a fellow, but never fails to be surprised by what it gets-a "belt" by one of the biggest voices now at large in a nightclub. Said one guest: "I never heard anything so big come out of anything so little." Hitting on all decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then...
...freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a Welshman, but ten years as a knockabout laborer in Australia had made him as indigenous as a kangaroo. When he became Australia's World War I Prime Minister, the Anzacs draped a big slouch hat around his pint-sized head, dubbed him "Little Digger...
Supply & Demand, The worst drawbacks, however, have nothing to do with G.G. itself. They are matters of supply & demand. It takes almost a pint of blood to make an average shot of G.G. (7 cc). To give protection for a single polio season to all the 41 million U.S. children under 15 might take 100 million shots or more, and there simply is not that much gamma globulin available, nor the blood or plasma to extract it from...
...shortage which has had all defense authorities worried. Parents who have never bothered to give blood for the wounded in Korea might gladly give buckets to get shots of G.G. for their own children. Blood banks might give a credit of one inoculation for every pint of blood that the family donates. But the bottleneck in processing, the wrangles over distribution, and the high price of G.G. will remain to plague the authorities...
Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive officials are confident today that they will meet and surpass their 2,600-pint goal. Results from all solicitors last night totalled 2,535 pints, with two days left in the drive...