Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet of glass covering the Old Campus and the general alcoholic haze emanating from the fraternity area notwithstanding, Yale is the only university in the United States where everybody asked the location of the Center of Alcohol Studies gives the same directions...
...Yale Center of Alcohol Studies sits unobtrusively without any identification--squat but spacious like a bottle of Ballantine's scotch. Undoubtedly built in the 19th century, its four stories have mahogany-toned woodwork and a faded coat of yellow paint, which partially conceals stone, stucco, or something...
...Alcohol research at Yale is nothing new. In 1930 the scientists at the Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology began to specialize in the study of alcohol and its effect upon the human body. They were pioneers and faced the added task of cutting through a forest of fallacy...
...hardest of all to take has been the board's practice, for about 30 years, of hiring restaurant-haunting alcohol spies. A Swede who dined out never knew whether his innocent-appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send...
...Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes-and then she would blame her bruises on him. Esperanza said that John also cursed her (she repeated some of his words in a whisper to the deadpan judge) and once doused her with rubbing alcohol. Well, snapped Wayne, Esperanza neglected her household duties. Esperanza then told how John had once returned from a Honolulu stag party with a stripteaser's "large black bite" on his neck. And after one studio party, he came home tight at dawn, smashed a door pane to get in, admitted...