Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet jet experts faced a serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
...right hand. Each had a bullet hole in the temple. Plans for a spectacular death had occupied Harry's mind since his days as an ambulance driver in the First World War. He pursued death as eagerly and as singlemindedly as he had pursued his other passions: alcohol, gambling, opium, women, and literature. Actually, Crosby's death displayed as little taste or originality as his poetry. He certainly succeeded in shocking and enraging Boston, but his other ambitions went unfulfilled...
...Potato, Two Potato isn't even worth trying, unless you have an extremely low tolerance. Expensive drinks with a minute amount of alcohol--orange juice at the Store 24 is cheaper and barely less intoxicating...
...first major shock was the disproportionate number of young blacks with college degrees who were unemployed and turning to alcohol and drugs. It was also obvious that the arrogance and greed of the white community remained largely unchanged. My wife, who happens to be white, was able to observe some of this firsthand. There was a prevailing hostility toward blacks, but what was most shocking was the automatic assumption by whites that all other whites shared this hostility. What has been harder for my wife to accept is the hostility of the black community toward her. I'm beginning...
...author divides his work into alphabetical sections suitable for future reference. A is for Alcohol, for instance, B is for Bottlenecks, ¶is for Clutter, etc. Cross references in the text link various subjects (see No. 5 below...