Word: quart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hears voices, sees things that aren't there, frightens her husband with screams in the night, gobbles uppers given to her by a dippy friend and downers prescribed by her disastrous psychiatrist. In the supermarket she takes half an hour to decide whether to buy milk by the quart or half-gallon. She scrubs her apartment a lot. In the end, she has the baby, dumps the pills and ditches the shrink; and at fadeout she seems prepared to live happily ever after...
...journey downtown, the Manhattan fans alternate between taking swigs from their quart bottles of beer and chanting, "The Ram is dead." By the time they reach the promised land, the Manhattan supporters have worked themselves into such a frenzy that there is no way they will have any voice left at the end of the game...
...radio). Mazda's engine and complex emissions system, though admirably low-polluting, tend to develop a popping effect unless points, plugs and carburetor are meticulously tuned. Nearly all Mazda drivers find that gas consumption is about 10% higher than for comparably sized cars; the Mazda drinks a quart of oil every 1,500 miles. Still, the car has a lot of selling points, including a fast pickup that carries it from 0 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. in about 9½ seconds, and sheer technological novelty. The latter is tied to a two-year-long fuse, but Brown insists that...
...like Burgundy or Pinot de la Loire. By contrast, U.S. tariffs on wine imports are only about 7½? a bottle, and nontariff restrictions are practically nonexistent. California lobbyists are trying to persuade the Treasury to require that imports be sold in standard American-sized wine bottles of 4/5 quart (25.6 oz.). European wines usually come in 24-oz. containers or, as Ernest Gallo calls them, "cheater bottles." The French complain that to adopt different bottles for the U.S. than for the rest of the world would raise costs and make French wine less competitive in the U.S. The label...
...each other's goods as imports from "most-favored-nations," meaning that both countries must impose the lowest possible tariffs on the other's merchandise. The effect of such tariff treatment on Russian vodka in the U.S., for example, would be to cut about $1 per quart from its retail price, making Moscow's excellent Stolichnaya brand more competitive with American products...