Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important qualitative difference about drinking was that alcohol was something you could do in a couple more years and it was something some of the faculty were soaked in most of the time. Drinking is socially expected in the world prep school was aiming for while drugs were for hippies. (Of course if prep school administrators knew what the jocks at Harvard did on Saturday night or peeked into a fraternity party at Amherst, they'd find grass is the new substitute for a hangover...
...arguments of desperate men. Pole position winners are seldom race winners at Indianapolis because cars are ran differently for qualifying and for racing. In qualifications, they use special fuel which burns quickly while providing tremendous power boosts for short periods of time. In the race they burn pure alcohol, which lowers speed but increases mileage...
Dropping the explicit ban on alcohol and tobacco represents a significant change for Methodism. Since the rule did not apply to laymen, many ministers have long complained that the church was in effect imposing a double standard of personal morality. Interpreting the rule change, Methodist officials insisted that it did not really relax discipline, instead placed the burden of responsibility for living a moral life on the self-discipline of the minister himself rather than on a code of laws. "It is time we took seriously what we mean by a 'moral witness,' " said the Rev. Harold Bosley...
...taken cigarette smoking a little over 30 years to become the generally accepted habit that it is today. It has taken science about 20 years to correlate, effectively, lung cancer with cigarette smoking. Alcohol, however, has had a rougher time, with Prohibition and Carry Nation standing in the road of progress. The offspring of its success have been thousands of suffering alcoholics. If marijuana is legalized, it will be interesting to see what vicious effects it will have on our already precarious society by the year 2000. Perhaps everyone will be so high that they won't care...
...safer than alcohol? You know it! Say, can you imagine Judgment Day, when all us swingers are standing there with our beads and beer and grass? Account for something? That went out years ago. We're safe; we'll make it because there's no conscience in a "brave new world...