Word: quart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retailers who resort to deceptive labeling, packaging and pricing devices. Armed with a slide rule to make her point that every shopper needs one, the "guardian of the gullible," as Mrs. Peterson styles herself, invades supermarkets throughout the nation to document such casuistic come-ons as the "jumbo quart" (exact volume unspecified), the "25?-off" special (off what?), and the "all-new" product (only the price is). Among her particular bêtes noires are the "giant-size" box that contains more air than substance and the practice of pricing by fractions, whih forces the consumer to decide between...
...vaccine. This would work against a chemical poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage in the intestinal wall. This impairment in turn cause cholera's devastating symptom: the most severe diarrhea known to man, in which an adult may lose up to 15 quart a day while running little or no fever...
When that distant goal is reached, another difficulty will arise: mountains of coarse, unusable salt will somehow have to be disposed of. Every quart of sea water contains an average of 1¼ oz. of salt; a 150-million-gallon-capacity plant would end up producing more than 23,000 tons of salt a day. "Only when you have effective water management and still have a shortage," says Jack Hunter, an assistant director of the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, "then desalinization may be the answer...
...runs through the novel. His writing is successful because it is a sly parody of his boyishness. His books are a tall tale told at his own expense, and always at a decent remove from the truth. Duluoz-Kerouac fornicates, hops a freight, smokes pot, drinks a quart, sleeps unscathed. He is a bumbling Paul Bunyan working with blue bull...
...answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle what in John O'Hara's hands might have been a high-proof short snort...