Word: pints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more romantic figure emerged from World War I than the shadowy desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia. Here was a pint-sized Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about...
Neat as it is, the show would be eminently missable except for one thing: Rooney. Twenty years of anticlimax have strung hard lines across the famous baby face. With his porky jowls and rathskeller neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...
...them $80,000 a year." When ancient Archie Moore prepared to defend his light-heavyweight boxing title, Murray took unsentimental note of Moore's brocaded ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber was "the only guy who ever won that trophy who could take a bath...
Measuring the intake of drinkers, the institute divided them into two general groups. Nonproblem drinkers include the "occasionals" (45 million), who drink less than a pint of whisky each month, the moderates (6 million), whose intake is about three-quarters of a pint a week apiece and the social drinkers (7.5 million), who account for a quart each per week. Problem drinkers are weighed by the day. Pre-alcoholics (4.1 million) each drink just under a pint a day, while the full-fledged alcoholic (5.4 million) drinks just a little bit more...
...theory that hard liquor would only bring out the savage in the black man, South Africa's white bosses for years have sternly forbidden intoxicants to the Africans. All the natives are allowed is thick, weak "kaffir beer" sold for seven cents per pint at government beer halls...