Word: quart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
...that time, poverty had spread its chill hand across the U.S. farmlands. Corn had dropped to 19? a bushel, hogs to 2½? a lb. and cotton to a demoralizing 5? and 6? a lb.; dairy farmers were forced to sell their milk for 2? and 3? a quart. Foreclosures had deprived thousands of farmers of their farms; in Iowa alone, one out of seven farmers lost his land between 1926 and 1931. Godfearing, usually law-abiding men banded together and picketed highways, overturning milk into creeks. That was one way to get rid of surpluses...
...Last, Full Measure ... In Middletown, N.Y., a patriotic citizen, after drinking two quarts of blackberry wine and half a quart of gin every week to help ease the water shortage, complained bitterly that the State Tax Bureau had rejected the deduction on his income-tax return...
...joint initiation ceremony on the eve of the Christmas holidays, and everyone was having a wonderful time. Then, as part of his ordeal, 20-year-old Harry C. Melton, a mechanical engineering student, undertook to drink himself silly. In about an hour, he had wolfed down more than a quart of Martinis. At that point he collapsed, was rushed to a hospital where he lay unconscious for 15 hours. For a while doctors feared for his life...