Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage since "the character of the Swiss woman does not point...
...rolled on, harsh, moralistic, fervid. Purified was the vast gambling establishment, purified was government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men, immune to such worldly blandishments as alcohol and money, found their grim satisfactions in rows of executed Batista henchmen...
...Alcohol angina is not uncommon, results when a patient gets high enough to become "involved in emotional events" that he would have the sense to avoid when sober. Also, alcohol is often prescribed to relieve angina (it is little good except as a sedative), and "enthusiasm for the treatment" may become so great that the doctor winds up treating alcoholism, not angina...
...alcohol made an impossible couple, it was nothing to his bizarre relations with women. The poet's broken-field running in the sexual arena would baffle a convention of psychiatrists. Author Winwar gallantly charts the whole painful performance, beginning with Edgar's first sonnets smuggled by his sister into an exclusive young ladies' seminary (although poetry was then acceptable currency in "date-patterns," his frenzies must have startled the girls out of their wits). There followed an ocean of vows and verses to members of what he learned bitterly to call "the pestilential society of literary women...
...pulse of the drumming quickened, the spirits drew nearer and began to possess their worshipers, who writhed and rolled in the sand: twitching and groaning. One believer pointed at another, yelling, "The evil god Exu has entered into him." then splashed a bottle of alcohol over him, touched it off with a candle, and watched his blazing victim run shrieking through the crowds. A young shop clerk, possessed by the spirit of the amorous Indian god Arruda, wrestled a pretty woman to the ground, died when her husband emptied his .45 into him. The next morning the beaches were littered...