Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least two duels, and later fight a dozen or so bouts as a blooded brother. Cheek scars were so prized that men with minor abrasions inflamed them with pepper or beer, or by placing a horsehair in the cut. and soberly got drunk on the theory that alcohol would make their scars more livid...
...dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy and black magic and once nearly committed suicide. He was addicted to absinthe, but he had one outlet that relieved him even more effectively than alcohol, Strindberg was a painter, and a startling...
...attack of polio left his right calf two inches thinner than his left. But his mother knew how to make an athlete. ''Frank was just like a scrawny chicken," she says. "He was always getting awful colds. I tried everything. I massaged his legs with triple-distilled alcohol, triple-distilled witch hazel and imported Italian olive oil. I mixed up goose grease, mutton suet, nutmeg and camphorated oil, and rubbed it on his chest." Well-marinated by the time he got to high school, Budd captained his basketball team, played halfback in football, even then...
Still unsure, the CAB asked Yale Medical School's alcoholism experts to decide whether alcohol can get into a man's brain from the water in which he is drowned...
After drowning a number of rats in sea water spiked with alcohol, the Yale experts reported that considerable alcohol indeed entered their brains. The dead crewmen could have got their alcohol after the accident from smashed deicing tanks. The bureau vindicated them by reporting that the accident was caused by engine failure...