Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This writer, a veteran of the simple blood-letting days, went to give up this year's pint the other day and found a medium sized line of people by some tables at the door, reminiscent of registration. Several people in the line were busy showing that they were just all guts by pretentiously rolling up their sleeves while volunteer "grey ladies" behind the tables filled out their forms. A motherly looking grey lady shepherded men from the tables to a line of chairs from which she fed them into the temperature and pulse-taking department...
...said disgustedly after about five minutes in which I had bled only a tenth of a pint. "I better try another vein if that's all right with you." I assured her it was all right. The nurse brought around a brand new jar, stabbed for the bigger vein and this time I bled. Despite her weariness, the nurse gamely kept conversation going while I opened and closed my hand around the round object, and the blood drained out. "Few rejects today," she said. "One, though, almost fainted on the bed before I took his blood. Decided I better...
...Stay flat," she ordered when she had her pint and took the needle out. "Now you can sit up," she said after about ten seconds. "All right," she said after another ten seconds, "you can get off now. Go to the canteen and have something to eat and drink. Don't run yet. Drink plenty tonight. Eat a full meal. Thank you very much...
...University blood donation enlistment drive, part of Cambridge's combined effort to meet its 14,000 pint total, was cited last week by the City Council for its record contribution to the campaign...
...year-old daughter of Japan's wartime Premier, arrived to make her donation to the blood bank, became so upset by the photographers that the doctors sent her home with a case of high blood pressure. Next day, with no photographers watching, she returned and calmly left her pint of blood...