Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this would be an objectionable sentence. For one thing, it's untrue. Marijuana no more "produces" dependence that driving fast does; people may get hung up or stung on either, but the chemical or car can hardly be blamed, certainly not in the sense that heroin or alcohol can. Marijuana simply does not produce that kind of dependency...
...today. Earlier, having become a teetotaler to please his wife, he had taken up drinking again because "the King took the pledge during the First War. His motive was to facilitate the killing of Germans, and it therefore seemed as if there must be some connection between pacifism and alcohol...
...hardly more than a storybook land ruled by the Danes-a seafarer's outpost cut adrift from the rest of civilization. Dandelions and buttercups grew on the turf roofs of cottages. Even hens' eggs tasted of fish. The people seemed dour, except when drunk on words or alcohol, and the only way that one could effectively insult a native was to call him a Dane...
...least two weeks after the treatment. The tech nique is not likely to catch on. Los Angeles' Dr. Edward T. Tyler found a male pill that knocked out the sperm after two or three weeks. Trouble was, the drug worked with prison volunteers who had no access to alcohol. Combined with even a single glass of beer, it produced severe vomiting, an intolerable rash, giddiness and stupor...
Romney's public--and private--image of simple goodness is something he sincerely believes and upholds. He often prays and fasts before making important decisions--like whether to run for office. A devout Mormon, he abstains from alcohol, tobacco, and coffee. Although Romney frequently attacks America's "moral decline" while campaigning, he avoided this topic at Harvard except to comment, in typical evangelistic vagueness, "The principal deficiencies in this country in the future are going to develop in the field of personal responsibility, family responsibility, and private institutional responsibility...