Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached 52,500. Well over half the drivers may have been drinking to the legal point of intoxication before the accidents occurred. To cope with this situation, the National Safety Council in 1961 recommended a stiffening of statutory lim its set to separate sober from drunk drivers. The blood alcohol level* indicating intoxication, advised the N.S.C., should be lowered from .15% to .10%. Some states have adopted the new limit, but is .10% still too high for safety...
...Denver surgeon and chairman of the Colorado Medical Society's Auto motive Safety Committee. Campbell, writing in the A.M.A. Journal, cites one study showing that 73% of the driv ers held responsible for fatal or dis abling car crashes had been drinking enough to raise their alcohol level to more than .20% before the accidents occurred. Earlier, the Journal had pub lished a study of 83 drivers killed in single-car crashes in New York's Westchester County. Of the 83, 49% had had blood alcohol levels of .15% when they died, another 20% registered be tween...
Back at Haworth, still another shock awaited. Brother Branwell, whom she envisaged as a writer of genius, was hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol. But Emily and Anne were busily writing poems and novels. Charlotte not only joined them but also took over as their agent; within two years, she had engineered the publication of a joint collection of poems and three novels: Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell (Emily), Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell (Anne) and Jane Eyre, by Currer Bell (Charlotte). The poems and the first two novels flopped; Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller...
Epstein may have died inadvertently from a combination of alcohol and the barbiturates found on his bedside table...
...make a highly potent beer, but one elephant can eat enough fruit in a day to supply a whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more fruit. Each year the park's rangers have to shoot about 30 elephants who become mean drunks, and tests of their blood show a staggering alcoholic content. Most...