Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Harvard trusts girls in its buildings, Radcliffe is not quite sure whether it will trust men in hers. For Radcliffe will allow none but her own to enter her buildings after 8:30 p.m.; in addition the college forbids alcohol to be served at any times, and spirits are a frequent refreshment at meetings. Merged activities, therefore, rely on Harvard buildings for evening meetings, giving the Harvard Dean's offices the responsibility of approving locations, finding chaperones, and recording all this data in triplicate...
...court Schneider at first was equally indignant, alleged that his "confession" had been extracted from him by the police "while I was under the influence of alcohol." But then he blandly admitted forging dozens of documents, ranging from "proof" that he had been in Nazi concentration camps to "proof" that he had served in the Nazi army. With an embarrassed smile, he agreed that he had used his own falsified army identification card in lectures showing troops how to avoid just such forgeries. Roared the judge: "Did you not become tired of making these forgeries?" Replied Schneider: "Not really, once...
Bogart finds himself dateless on the big Princeton weekend and is drinking his way through to Monday when Diana-Sue arrives, a girl with flexible morals and eager glands. Bogard's friends, sports all, treat their visiting nymph to liquor, grain alcohol, benzedrine, and then exercise her in a "gangbang." Thus even sex becomes organized for the IBM generation...
...patients with crippled digestions multiplied in her case histories, Dr. Jordan found that 55% had no ulcer or other organic cause of illness. Instead, their digestive tracts were rebelling against their owners' abuse-with hastily wolfed meals, rich and heavily spiced foods, often washed down with alcohol and-cured in tobacco smoke. Many compounded the mischief by harmful self-medication, especially with laxatives. For these, as well as for the follow-up care of the more serious cases with active ulcers (which might require surgery or at least a couple of weeks in the hospital), Dr. Jordan laid down...
Merry Nostrum. In Seattle, Lewis N. Rogers, arrested for drunk driving, testified that he had consumed two ounces of cough medicine but no liquor, lost the case on admission that the medicine was 42% alcohol...