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Word: pints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School's imposing, immaculate buildings--quiet, a mass of glass and brick, exuding the aura of Olympian top-management executive retreats. Over on one side of the ground floor is a cafeteria where some of the secretaries eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches and drink half-pint cartons of Lo-Fat milk off of plastic trays...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Building a Cause in the Office | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

...guys down at the West Side were pretty shady looking characters, especially the Tech students. I remember once seeing them ahead of me while out doing some road-work, when suddenly a group of about four disappeared into the bushes. Later I learned they had a pint of sloe...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Unruly Comments | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...Dartmouth Saturday was clear and in the sixties, which was amazing since it had been raining and cool the rest of the week. We picked up a pint of Southern Comfort and a box of whiskey sour mix from Harvard Pro, made about a quart of whiskey sour and sneaked it into the game in a paper bag. We got there a little early and started on the drinks...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...including 1420 Mass Ave in the Square and 1702 Mass Ave near the Quadrangle. About 16 regular flavors of pretty rich and pretty dense ice cream are complemented by several "flavors of the month," a standard attraction. A cone will set you back 35 or 45 cents, a pint 95 cents and a quart $1.75. Jimmies (tiny chocolate candies sprinkled on top, out-of-towners) free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Cream | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...together, an ideal candidate for a scholarship to Yale (class of 1958), and that's what he got. In New Haven the poor, bright, pint-sized Midwesterner felt left out, though his classmates were dazzled by his ability to make instant anagrams out of any name that was mentioned ("Alec Guinness" became "genuine class"). Along with French and German, he acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Little Boy Blue | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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