Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines were clear enough, but unbelievable: MENDÈS ATTACKS LIQUOR, PREMIER WANTS TOILERS TO DRINK WATER, GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE REGULATIONS AGAINST ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION...
...laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion francs a year. But the Premier could point to statistics, too: alcoholism is costing his nation almost that much in cold cash alone: some 40% of French accidents are attributable to alcohol; alcoholism accounts indirectly for 40% of the national...
There is an undeniable temptation to approach the announcement about football games and alcohol with distended check. The conjured prospect of policemen taking exploratory swigs from every coffee thermos does not lend itself to a straightforward discussion of the ruling and the reasons...
...colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile Row suits and carries a cane, but his living habits are austere-no tobacco, no alcohol, no meat-and he sometimes seems to get along only on massive doses of phenobarbital, arrogance and black tea. "When Menon enters a room,'' an associate once said, "tension enters...
...Alcoholism is increasing faster among women than among men in the U.S., Professor Elvin Jellinek of Texas Christian University reported to the World Health Organization in Geneva last week. So far, said Dr. Jellinek (formerly head of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies), only one U.S. alcoholic out of six is a woman, but the ratio is creeping up. One probable reason, he suggested, is women's increased earning power: "When women compete with men in the professional field, they tend to adopt some of the outward signs of male culture...