Word: quarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Coast cities whose inhabitants like to think of themselves as civilized, no longer have the slightest tolerance for ice cream ordinaire. An unpresumptuous little chocolate ripple does not interest them; they want presumption. And to say that they are willing to pay ruinous prices for it-$7 a quart for hand-packed ice cream is not unheard of-is to understate the case. They demand the right to pay these prices...
...fascinated observer, "intentionally or unintentionally created a kind of hole-in-the-wall chic." It sure has; suburbanites frequently drive an hour each way to stand in a 20-min. line in front of Bob's and pay 950 for a cone and $3.75 for a quart of apple-peanut butter, banana mango or mocha almond. People buy Bob's Kahlua for $17 per gal., and some have spent $40 to airfreight it across the country. Owner Bob Weiss, 35, a lawyer who tired of the profession when he followed his lawyer-wife to Washington, started the shop...
...Each flush is one quart...
Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, who suggested and wrote the story, claims it takes him "about three hours and a quart of coffee" to become fully functional in the morning. So to prepare for his story he used the new video-recorder technology to catch all three morning programs, and all 40 winks. Says Clarke: "I've been blinking through the shows for years, but this time I set the timer on my video recorder and watched them later...
Since Jan. 1, when wine and liquor bottlers began observing a federal mandate to switch to metric measurement, the cost of boozing has been confusing. Pints, fifths, quarts, half-gallons and gallons are being replaced in stores by new-size bottles. The quart, for instance, is being supplanted by a container holding 1 liter (a good slurp more than the old bottle); a half-gallon jug of vino now comes in a 1.5-liter size, while the half-gallon of hard stuff has become a 1.75-liter container. Judging the better buy between sizes is enough to drive an Einstein...