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Word: alcoholized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen's wife next day went to see her husband. She knew that he could not rest quietly in the good earth without his head. Tucking a wash basin and a bottle of alcohol under her arm, she trudged off to Japanese headquarters at Taichow. From a Japanese officer she demanded the head of her husband. The officer refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Chen's Head | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Carefully placing the head in the wash basin, Chen's wife soaked it in alcohol and took it back to her village. There she sewed it to the neck and buried body and head. Now Chen and his head rest in a grave no different from thousands of others that dot the green hills of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Chen's Head | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...Legation here at Managua, a member of the staff of Pan American Airways (to whom we owe your splendid Air Express edition) and an English traveler. The night watchman was unable to make gentlemen out of the three of them, and they only quieted down when the percentage of alcohol in their system overpowered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1941 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...speakers kept their eyes on the ball in play. Said Columbia University's Dr. Haven Emerson: "It must be evident that tolerance of alcohol, which invariably dulls the mind and slows the body, weakens the conscience and makes men vulnerable to disease, is [now] at least unpatriotic and under some circumstances actually treasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tepees and Propaganda | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

They were no longer strong enough to row. Little rain fell. Finally, parched, shriveled, black-skinned, they broke the glass of their compass and sipped the distilled water and alcohol. After that they never knew where they were going. They just drifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAHAMAS: Sea Story | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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