Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hogshead of whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket. The casket's glass top was broken in disinterment, said he, and the body, exposed to the air, quickly disintegrated...
Virginia last week became the first state with model legislation on alcoholism, as recommended by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol (a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science). The Virginia legislature appropriated $200,000, to be spent over a two-year period on treatment, rehabilitation and research...
...Gorer, are psychologically unable to endure the open dislike of the people around them. One example he gives is the difficulty experienced in carrying out a tough policy in conquered Germany. In such situations Americans tend to withdraw, physically if possible; if that is not possible, then chemically, through alcohol, or ideologically, into isolation...
...found that he could obtain relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate as their grip over Crane grew progressively more overpowering." He wrote his masterpiece, The Bridge, on two grants of $1,000 each from
...Alcohol, used habitually, hardens the arteries...