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Inspirational Teachings. As Wilson used to relate. "Down went that strange barrier that had always stood between me and the people around me. Here was that missing link." After the 1929 crash, Wilson tried to forget his losses with numbing doses of bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk...
Lowndes County is a largely rural area. Hewlett describes the main law enforcement problems as bootleg whiskey and public gambling. He said that there are only a few robberies each year...
...myself performing the feats of these uniformed supermen; yet thinking about Sunday's heroes does offer relief from mundane cares. When I fall asleep, however, I begin to dream middle-aged dreams. I dream that I am old, egg-bald Y.A. Tittle in high-top shoes, running a bootleg into the end zone on my weary legs. Or I dream of being Sonny Jurgensen, proudly puffing out my potbelly as if it were a chest, fading back and letting go with the most accurate arm in the game. And when I awake, I feel somehow fit and fresh...
...Frisbie was knocked unconscious in the second quarter when he and Brad Fenton combined to stop a bootleg by Big Red quarterback Rick Furbush. X-rays after the game revealed that Fribie has two fused cervical vertebrae, which make him susceptible to blows on the head...
...foreign language signs are banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except for embassies and oil workers deep in the desert). A bootleg bottle of Scotch brings $20 and the risk of arrest...