Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public places, they free muggers to attack isolated pedestrians. The U.S. mind is haunted by wanton multiple murder-16 people killed by a sniper in Austin, eight nurses slain by a demented drifter in Chicago. It is hard to convince the fearful that 80% of U.S. murders (half involve alcohol) are committed by antagonistic relatives or acquaintances, not strangers...
Overexpectation. As with alcohol, it can be used in a variety of ways and to a variety of degrees. Like their fathers and mothers, who learned to hold their liquor in college, today's youngsters have to learn how, when, where and why to use how much marijuana. A common experience is to feel no effect whatsoever the first time marijuana is used. Quite contrary to the effects of alcohol's first use, this is probably a result of overexpectation, apprehension about the unknown, and the pervasive awareness of doing something illegal. This last aspect is one reason...
...vast majority of users declare that marijuana is simply an escape hatch, probably no more dangerous-even if less tasty-than alcohol. Smoking pot, they say, should be as socially and legally acceptable as drinking cocktails or highballs. In this they are supported by a growing number of physicians, psychologists, sociologists and criminologists. But they are vigorously opposed by both U.S. and state law-enforcement officers. Notable among these is Commissioner Henry L. Giordano of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who sees the use of marijuana as "a vice which draws with it a train of depravity stretching far into...
...taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...
...simple drill was not going to achieve miracles; we toyed with shock techniques designed to persuade students that classroom thinking could be related to their experience. One of the first essays assigned asked students to answer the question, 'If God had not approved of drinking, why did he make alcohol?" The response varied from enthusiastic to sullen. Some tutees never showed up after the first meeting...