Word: pints
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...electorate, and those concerns are reflected in the spectrum of presidential candidates. Allende, a physician by training, has done most to dramatize the tragic conditions. As a panacea, he promises to nationalize mining, banking and foreign trade, and see to it that every Chilean baby has a pint of milk...
...cervix and curettage (scraping) of the womb lining. For the next four weeks, most physicians consider abortion too hazardous because of the danger of causing hemorrhage or even puncturing the uterus. Beyond the 16th week, the preferred method is "saline induction," the injection of about half a pint of salt solution into the womb. New York Hospital, which has 112 beds in its women's division, is scheduling eight D and Cs a day, plus 16 salines a week. St. Luke's Medical Center, with 137 beds available, does six D and Cs daily, 18 salines a week...
...direct, life-saving transfusions to victims of burns and injuries, while pharmaceutical companies have been purchasing increasing quantities for use in the production of vaccines and serums. This growing demand has created a thriving business for hundreds of unlicensed private laboratories, which buy plasma for $5 and up per pint, sell it for at least a 100% profit. But it has also led to a serious public-health problem, and last week the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council proposed strict new rules to police the plasma plants...
Then last May catastrophe struck. One of the worst earthquakes in history annihilated several Peruvian villages and towns, killing 50,000 people and leaving other thousands homeless. Aid poured in from sympathetic countries, among them France, Spain and Yugoslavia. Cuba's Fidel Castro flamboyantly donated a pint of his blood. Last week Pat Nixon flew south for a two-day visit to the disaster areas, the first such foreign mission ever undertaken by a First Lady. Air Force One, which carried her there, was piled high with gifts for the Peruvians. A second plane was even more loaded...
...shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to pay for them out of a 10-shilling pound," he declared. In Leicester, he evoked the specter of "the poor, the penniless and the housewives" facing across-the-board price boosts?milk up twopence a pint, jam up 8 pence a pound, sausage up 9 pence, coal up £2 10 shillings...