Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline of cottage distilleries is the influx of legitimate industry into the South, offering an economic alternative to young men who might formerly have opted for the still life. Also, Southerners' tastes have changed. George R. ("Bob") Powell, special agent in charge of the Division of Alcohol, Tax and Firearms station in Wilkesboro, N.C., observes: "You'll notice that even poor people like good liquor these days." Another explanation comes from a seventyish great-grandmother who operates a general store in North Carolina's moonshine capital of Wilkes County: "All these kids want to do these days...
Morgan, 36, thus became the fourth law-enforcement official in the Nixon Administration to be charged with a crime. As an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he had supervised the policing of counterfeit, customs, firearms and alcohol laws. The former Arizona lawyer faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
Mayer also suggested that Americans cut their consumption of alcohol, estimating that the grain used to produce the hard liquor consumed annually by Americans could feed 20 to 30 million people...
...heart belongs to Brick (Keir Dullea), who spurns her in bed and is drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...
...student orientation toward jobs has even contributed to the comeback on campus of beer and liquor, since many students fear that a drug arrest might ruin their chances for a successful career. Moreover, they often find alcohol to be cheaper than drugs, which have been hard hit by inflation. At Boston University, Quaaludes have gone from 300 a tablet to as high as $3; at the University of Michigan, an ounce of marijuana costs as much as $15, up from $12 last year...