Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weaver v. Weaver. In Elko, Nev., arrested for drunkenness, Evan Harvey told the judge: "A friend advised me to treat a spider bite with alcohol and I drank too much...
...runners ran circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from alcohol and tobacco before the big meet, the British, deception aside, showed no aversion to a few puffs or a small snort. Gilligan made a great show just before the start of the two-mile, parading up and down the track with a cigar clenched in his teeth...
Powering Challenger I were four 1959 Pontiac engines-two driving the front wheels, two the rear-that delivered a total of 1,800 h.p. on alcohol and nitromethane. The engines were coordinated by a hydraulic arm that controlled all four clutches simultaneously. Said Mickey: "We want to prove we can coax more speed out of one engine-or two, or three, or four-than any other men alive...
...ascetic little man, Elijah sternly demands that his followers give up tobacco, dope and alcohol, bathe often, pray toward Mecca five times a day, even if it means falling upon their knees in the streets. Moslem women should dress modestly, use no lipstick, never allow themselves to be alone in a room with any man except their husbands. Attacking all forms of dependence upon whites, Elijah set up a Moslem restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought...
Tobruk and lives by the tenets of the Senussi sect, which holds Libya's diverse tribesmen together: no alcohol, no tobacco, no coffee, no immodesty. So modest and unassuming is Idris that he ordered his own image removed from Libya's postage stamps and currency and has given two of his palaces to the state...