Word: quart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listen, Peter," the voice says, "you're no good. Why don't you jump out the window, Peter?" Trembling, Peter rummages through the wastebasket, runs his tongue feverishly into the necks of the three empty bottles he finds there. Then he sees it on the floor-a quart bottle three-quarters full of bourbon. But a gleaming white boa constrictor is coiled around it, nicking its forked tongue...
...radioactive strontium 90 the human system can tolerate without damage, but to be on the safe side, Health Secretary Arthur S. Flemming last week cut the maximum permissible dose to less than half the previously accepted figure-from 80 to 33 millionths of a millionth of a curie per quart of milk, and equivalent readings in food and air. ¶ Insurance against the costs of cancer care was offered in a simplified policy by New York's Standard Security Life Insurance Co., with maximum total benefits of $10,000 ($3,000 in any one year). Cancer is broadly defined...
...years Connecticut's milkmen have had things pretty much their own way. The state consumed so much (1,128,500 quarts daily), yet produced so little (40% of its supplies are imported), that local dealers boosted prices until they were charging 31? per quart for home-delivered milk, 28? for store-bought. That was too much for Connecticut's housewives. Last week, after a two-year revolt, they won their fight-with a little help from a hustling supermarket. Grade A milk was down to as low as 19? a quart in the stores, and home-delivered milk...
Even for the busy workers, everything was gratifyingly simple. The vaccine, colored the faintest of pinks by cherry flavoring, arrived in 1,000-cc. bottles (about a quart), enough for 500 doses. A nurse drew 2 cc. (half a teaspoonful) at a time with a bulb-type dropper, put it in a tiny paper cup. Another worker added about a tablespoonful of water-distilled, to guard against the possibility that chlorinated tap water might reduce the vaccine's potency...
...correct most of them, including a slipping fan belt and carburetor icing. Biggest complaint against the Corvair is its gas mileage, which sometimes runs well under 20 m.p.g., rarely measures up to other compacts. Part of the trouble may be its gasoline heater, which eats up to a quart of gas an hour. Chevrolet engineers have also remodeled the Corvair's carburetors in the interests of saving gas. Though many drivers complain that none of the compacts live up to mileage expectations, they burn standard instead of premium gas, giving them a considerable price saving...