Word: quart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Food? A busy supermarket does a business of $300,000 a month selling milk at 15? a quart and turkey at 41? a Ib. Entertainment? There are five nightclubs with free floor shows, inexpensive dinners and 25? highballs. The Teen Club is dominated by a free-play jukebox loaded with 60 rock-'n'-roll records and no reject button. Motoring? U.S. cars come direct from the factory at prices far below Stateside and gasoline is pumped into the tank at 14? a gallon. Vacation? If bored with the local 18-hole golf course (family membership: $40 a year...
...snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical old-timers that this was the time to pursue chorus girls, since they were away from home, lonesome and worried. One reason spirits did not fall farther was that some were being consumed by the imperial quart, backstage and elsewhere, before, during and after each performance. More than one knight of the Round Table was caught breaking his vows. In semi-idleness, it hardly seemed like the idyled kingdom of Camelot...
Assisted by local surgeons, the doctors treated sinus cancer by cutting into the external carotid artery, inserting a thin polyethylene tube, and stitching it in place. They hooked this up to an infusion bottle and a pump, which delivered a quart of saline solution every 24 hours. So potent is the drug that this volume contained only one six-hundredth of an ounce of Methotrexate. Every six hours, a nurse gave an intramuscular injection of CF. For women with cervical cancer, polyethylene tubes are set in arteries on both sides of the lower abdomen...
...goats, live chickens. Sometimes when the car is full I carry the chickens on my lap." Adds Driver Félix Bernaola, who runs a durable 1928 Ford sedan: "I average 150 miles daily, and in 14 hours I use about 15 gallons of gas and about a quart of oil. The motor is in fairly good shape, only in winter I have to heat it with a blowtorch for about 15 minutes to get it started...
...unbury the crocks intact. Elated, Seymour headed for London, searched out old army buddies who polished off one of the two-gallon crocks. The other he took back to Canada, where Her Majesty's Canadian Customs Department heartlessly ruled that he was entitled to bring in one quart of liquor and not a nostalgic swig more. Seymour got himself licensed as a liquor importer, paid $23.99 in fees. last week dispensed sparing nips from the crock to friends, who glowed over the "wonderful aftertaste...