Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report listed several differences between the effects of marijuana and alcohol...
...SONGS deal with an astonishing number of subjects. He talks about travel, old age, slavery, politics, poetry readings, Harvard, fame, broken arms, Charles Whitman, Christmas, alcohol, and adultery. Henry's world "is a solemn place, with room for tennis." (175) His major preoccupations...
...George but politics and the pursuit of power. Food has no interest for him: he will eat anything, so long as it is smothered in ketchup. He is never without a cigar, but he cannot say what brand he is smoking at any given moment. He does not drink: alcohol, he says, "wastes your physical and mental energy." His dress is nondescript: always a white shirt and a faintly iridescent black suit. He has no hobbies and no interest in material possessions (he claims assets of $77,000). Aboard his campaign plane, he spends most of his time staring stolidly...
...Squad" is proof that someone who is paid to keep their finger on the nation's pulse thinks that America is scared of its young. America is afraid of the rock and roll army, scared of its rejection of their values, scared of the drugs kids take instead of alcohol, scared the kids might really be having fun in spite of the imminent wrath of God, scared that it might be true when the young say that adults lives are boring, trivial, and nourishing as spit...
...essentials of U.N. diplomacy remain, as Adlai Stevenson once defined them, "protocol, alcohol and Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...