Word: pints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average charge of $25 a pint, the blood business is big business, and in most of the U.S. it has always been a bloody mess. In New York City there are 158 hospitals and other outfits-from the altruistic to the crassly commercial -that collect and handle blood with a bewildering variety of methods for typing, preserving and storing...
...Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...
...crew sailed their 24 foot Raven to an easy victory. During the second race, however, everything went wrong, the Crimson was forced to withdraw because of an infraction of the third race, at the end of the first day of racing Ford's crew was in third place, one pint behind Rhode Island and two behind arch-rival Yale...
...1950s, rising Arab nationalism led to frequent border raids by Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Yemenites indignantly claim the entire Aden region as South Yemen. In response, Britain decided to band the protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...
...radio and television commercial brought complaints from the customers-but that was what happened two years ago when a pair of cartoon characters named Bert and Harry Piel stopped delivering their sudsy-soft sell for Piel's Beer in the New York area. From 1955 to 1960, pompous, pint-sized Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful...