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Word: alcoholism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long. The drive backfired when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog anyone found drinking alcohol in public. But respect for privacy is so great in Saudi Arabia that not even the most fanatical of these protectors of public virtue would ever dream of breaking into a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

More disturbing is that 20% of Japanese high school students admit they need a drink several times a week just to keep going on the academic mill. Dr. Hiroaki Kono. Japan's leading expert on alcoholism, warns: "If this catches fire it would be like matches on oil. We are the most permissive people in the world as regards alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Drinking as a Way of Life | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...dozen students from the University of Miami strung five miles of clothesline along the causeway to Key Biscayne and hung up clothes to dry in the sun. Actor Eddie Albert arrived at Detroit's Cadillac Square in a car powered by gascohol, a mixture of gasoline and alcohol, which can be made from any plants that grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having Fun with the Sun | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says, "That's that, the shoes are comfortable, noiseless and hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...other. Food hoarding set in, and all the colony rats, even the undrugged, were hitting the bottle hard. By about the 25th day after the injections, when a dominant "King Rat" (the largest of the anxious rats) emerged to bully the colony, the rats had increased their rate of alcohol consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Manly or Beastly? | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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