Word: bourbonized
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...alcohol five or six days a week. I started to steal to pay for it, money, things to pawn. I never stole from my family. By the time I was 17, I dropped out of school, I had my own apartment. I'd wake up around noon, and drink bourbon and coffee, in that order. Then I'd go to work bussing tables, finish at midnight, and go to a bar. Closing time was 2:30 a.m., so I'd go home to drink. If I didn't have anything at home, I 'd stay at a coffee shop until...
...school texts to grammatical mistakes. They are well known, however, for being extreme right-wing Christians who censor books freely if they stray from the Gablers' ultra-right-wing Christian agenda. These people are no better than German censors who burned books that departed from their ideology. MONTINO BOURBON DEL MONTE Santa Barbara, Calif...
...compound that blocks certain neuroreceptors, causing hallucinations in high doses and, in lower doses, a fuzzy dissociation--like the warmth of a couple of Jim Beams. Legally, it's used as an anesthetic. Illegally, one snorts ketamine because the fuzziness lasts half an hour and doesn't produce bourbon's four-Advil hangover...
Some years earlier Joseph had found an apartment in the same building for Pusey's Harvard predecessor, James B. Conant '14. Indeed, Pusey and Conant became great friends while living in the building from 1971 to 1977--a process facilitated, according to Pusey, by their shared fondness for bourbon...
Most people today remember her, if they remember her at all, for that husky, bourbon-soaked voice and her outsize personality ("Dahhhling"), emblems of a kind of theatrical glamour that was even then going out of style. Drinking and chain-smoking eventually wore her down, and the actress, who died in 1968, spent her last years parodying herself in TV guest spots (the celebrity who moves next door to Lucy and Ricky Ricardo) and polishing her own fading image. To a fan who asked if she was really Tallulah Bankhead, she reportedly answered, "What's left...