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...himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
...they believe they can nail candidates for terminal elitism by asking them if they know the cost of a quart of milk or a dozen eggs. (Correct answer in nondairy states: "I don't know; I'm watching my cholesterol." Real correct answer: "Good God, man, I'm trying to figure out how to govern the world's most powerful nation, not win a slot on The Price Is Right...
...would be burned in a 2,200¡ furnace, spewing what the Army says are harmless emissions from a 75-ft. stack. The toxins to be used at the facility are sarin and VX, among the most virulent chemicals known. While the military would make and store less than a quart of the toxins at any one time, that is enough to kill 850,000 people...
...essential is water; most people can live no more than four days without it. The minimum for a shelter is one quart of fluid per person per day; if space is available near the shelter, a gallon of water a day per person would provide for your comfort, including washing...
...DOLLAR COLLAPSED against the German mark and the Japanese yen last week, Sara McBain saw the impact for herself in a supermarket in Tokyo. The housewife, visiting from Chicago, stared in disbelief at cranberry juice that cost nearly $7 a quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether...