Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only treatment is to ease the pain, usually with external applications of alcohol. The only protection against Portuguese men-of-war is to keep away from them. In March and early April, when myriads of the purplish jellyfish are blown ashore by easterly winds, avoiding them is not always easy for Florida swimmers...
DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife, or speaks in the soft dark ness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit-as we! as his decline through sycophancy, self indulgence and alcohol...
DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife or speaks in the soft darkness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit-as well as his decline through sycophancy, self-indulgence and alcohol...
...Last year Poles managed to down 118 million quarts of vodka, wine and beer, or almost four quarts for every man, woman and child, a statistic that shows up in widespread worker absenteeism and hooliganism. Fed up, Poland's Red rulers have begun to crack down hard on alcohol, revoking 82 liquor licenses in Warsaw alone, which on top of a recent ban on liquor sales in many stores and outdoor kiosks has cut the number of Poland's booze vendors...
...Poland's red-faced commissars, the country's drinking problem is no laughing matter. Radio Warsaw commented that in the province of Zielona Gora, workers lost 130,000 man-hours in a recent three-month period because of absenteeism, much of it "from the abuse of alcohol." Teen-age rowdyism is even more worrisome. One newspaper said 80% of Polish hooliganism could be traced to alcohol, while a Gdansk poll turned up even more remarkable statistics: among 5,000 youngsters aged 7 to 14, as many as 42% drank occasionally and 20% frequently...