Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bedad, we'll not," the workmen replied. He offered free pints for willing workers, but the men answered that they valued their lives more than a pint of beer. Next, he turned to the oldest greybeards in the parish (one 95, the other 97), and offered them the job on the theory that they did not have enough years left to fear the vengeance of the fairies. They declined...
...hands noodle out a few bars from Gershwin's Concerto in F; then the man in the crumpled suit says: "This is Oscar Levant speaking. It's an identification that I have to make because I suffer from amnesia." Twice a week, in a pint-sized studio at Hollywood's KCOP-TV, Levant snaps at his guests, snarls at the camera, squints at the "20 outpatients" of his audience, sneers at his sponsors, scowls at the world, sits at his piano, twitching, squirming, blinking, playing. Says he: "I'm a study of a man in chaos...
...Half-Pint Without a Cause. In Towner, N.Dak., an empty cream bottle, left on a counter in the Golden Rule Store, collected nearly a dollar in small coins before a clerk noticed...
...both diagnosis and treatment. The operating room is a scale model of any good hospital o.r., with sterilizers, surgical instruments, anesthesia gear and oxygen supply. One permanent staff member lives in a sheltered outdoor kennel. A young male greyhound, he is the resident blood bank, can give a pint every two weeks...
...could have continuous medical care, frequent lab tests, and the ever-necessary transfusions. As she grew up, Helen helped with the younger children, worked in the office, developed a cheery personality that belied her tenuous hold on life. Every two months (in recent years) she has received four pints of blood, a half-pint on alternate days to cut down the severity of her chills-and-fever reaction to transfusions. She has responded surprisingly well to the transfusion routine. "It still hurts, but I'm a good girl about it," she says. Understandably, Helen was poster girl...