Word: pints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave her finest performance since arriving in South Viet Nam last month for her third visit to the troops. Heavy casualties had been airlifted into Soctrang from a withering battle several miles away, and Martha, who was at the base to do a show, immediately donated a pint of blood, then spent the next 18 hours making herself genuinely useful as a nurse. "She was terrific," said a sergeant, and last week General William Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, honored her with a rare Certificate of Achievement for patriotic civilian service for her "unselfish, humanitarian actions...
Three plays lost five yards. And with less than 30 seconds to play, Coach Henry Lamar called pint-sized halfback John Ballantine off the bench and put him in the quarterbacking slot. With fourth and 15, Ballantine amazed everyone by squirming around left end and slithering up the middle to the Jumbo...
...year, the company plans to enter its 5800 sports car in the U.S. and European markets. Convertible and hardtop versions of the S-800, a small, four-cylinder, four-carburetor model that resembles the Austin-Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive from a four-cylinder Honda Formula II racer that won all ten of its Grand Prix starts this year...
Sales, of necessity, are geared to the poorest of the poor who can afford nothing better: 25 cents a shot, $1.25 a pint, on credit if need be. Those bootleggers who live in areas where there are at least a few relatively well-heeled customers will have nothing to do with untaxed liquor: the amount of cash involved is far too little and there is too much uncertainty. The police, for whom it is the simplest of errands to run someone in for possession of untaxed liquor, refrain on payment of a staggering $8 per week for each patrolman...
Many businesses are doing some fast footwork to avoid or soften the blow. The easiest solution is to raise prices. Thus, brewers have suggested that publicans charge a penny a pint more for beer, and the Hairdressers' Federation suggests an increase of sixpence a haircut. Hotels are also announcing or considering price hikes. The London Hilton calculates its wage bill will rise by $2,800 a week...