Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly always have a point. When the rival paper, Hearst's Examiner, got overrighteously indignant about topless bathing suits, Newhall ran a two-line editorial: "The problem with San Francisco is not topless bathing suits. It's topless newspapers." Mixing up a concoction of baking powder and alcohol and selling it to friends as Spanish fly, he helped finance a small scholarship fund for Mexican students at the University of California. During the Pueblo crisis, when Governor Ronald Reagan was urging a 24-hour ultimatum to the North Koreans, Newhall offered to finance the deployment of a battleship...
Nudity is only one of Raquel's no-nos. She does not smoke, or drink alcohol or coffee. On the set, she tends to be remote with her costars. Making 100 Rifles, she was so distant that Jim Brown stopped talking to her altogether. When he wanted to communicate with Raquel, he did so through her husband-even when it came to passing the salt. When a publicity photograph called for a seminude clinch, Raquel called for a towel to insert in the chest-to-chest confrontation...
Every weekend, as he travels from hamlet to hamlet, President Joaquin Balaguer carries with him a large bottle of alcohol and a supply of cotton. While he shakes hands with the country folk and listens attentively to their complaints, he constantly wipes his hands with alcohol as a precaution against disease. In the Dominican Republic, however, it is a lot easier to ward off germs than political foes. Balaguer is plagued by enemies and rivals. Last week he decided to face them down by announcing his decision to run again in the next elections, scheduled...
...freeze within one minute, and mistakes are paid for by the loss of a hand or a foot. At 60 below, steel will break more easily and rubber is as brittle as glass. Standard lubricating oils solidify into a buttery mess, and gasoline must be liberally dosed with alcohol to keep motors running. Unless engines are kept .turning over, they risk a "cold soaking" that seizes every moving part in icy immobility...
With unwarranted assurance, psychologists have frequently extrapolated from rat performances in mazes all manner of conclusions about man. Because rats can tolerate a good deal of alcohol, for instance-ounce for ounce, more than man-experimenters have thrown doubt on the longstanding conclusion that man and drink dangerously mix. Insights into the human capacity for stress, based on experiments with placid laboratory rats, falter before the unrehearsed wild rat's total inability to endure any man-imposed stress...