Word: quart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the world has brightened for her, Harlem's harsh outlines occasionally soften for the reminiscent tournament traveler. "I remember you could get fish and chips for 15? and soda at 5? a quart. And there were sweet potatoes-we called 'em 'mickeys'-that we cooked at a fire over milk crates. We'd climb over the fence to a playground and we'd swing way up, two on a swing. And we'd sneak in the movies. If there was any poverty, I wasn't aware of it. How could...
...driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those who have known him longest, Beck never suffered so much as a hangnail. But such was the shadow he cast through his goon squad, that the rank-and-file Teamster still thinks...
...descended from a plane at Orly Field last week were about his U.S. visit. Then French newsmen got down to what they regarded as more important: What would the Premier do about the bill in the National Assembly to raise the price of milk half a cent a quart? To an aide Mollet testily commented: "How can I return from high policy talks with Eisenhower and ask for a vote of confidence on milk...
...Clements, 59, a shrewd, tough Democrat who has kept his fences well mended during his six years in the Senate. Even so, Clements was leaving nothing to chance. He campaigned 18 hours a day last week, allowed himself only two daily luxuries: a hot bath in the afternoon, a quart of ice cream at night (he shuns bourbon when on campaign duty). Clements' campaign technique: magnolias and corn ("Now I understand why Kentucky is known far and wide for its lovely, gracious ladies. I hope you will not think me forward for speaking to you. I'm Earle...
Adair was the first human subject so treated for barbiturate poisoning. Punching a hole through the muscle wall of his abdomen 2 in. below the navel, doctors inserted a plastic tube in his peritoneal cavity and hooked this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with...