Word: pints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London Transfusion Center, the Prince was asked whether he was homosexual, injected drugs into his veins or had had sex with anyone in those two groups. After those regulation indignities (and his negative answers), he had an apprehensive question of his own: "Is it going to hurt?" When the pint was finally drawn, Charles pretended to apologize because his blood was not blue: "I'm afraid it's red like anyone else's." Fancy that...
...people arguing about bets; 'Hold on there, I'll handle this' (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail.' Thousands of teen-agers, group singing 'Let the Sun Shine In,' ten soldiers guarding the American flag...So far we hadn't seen that special kind of face...the mark of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture...
...Hart's descriptions of left-wing rallies are pint-sized imitations of Tom Wolfe's roasts of the trendy liberals of the sixties...
Father: No. We need you to keep us in shoe leather. Off you go down to the factory. I'm for a pint...
Diflo said that, despite a good initial response at Harvard, the donor turn-out has been low in the past three days and there is "no way to gauge" whether the Harvard-Yale competition has helped it toward its 1400-pint goal...