Word: dipsomaniac
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...with the business of being an undercover agent of the Communist Party. He has a charm of a kind, and Lord Pontypool, for one, cannot live without him. But the penumbra of lies and bad faith under which he lives infects all his acquaintances. His wife, Daisy, becomes a dipsomaniac...
...among seven visiting fellows. Each of them is a distinguished specialist in some recondite field, or rather is a monomaniac locked inside an ever-narrowing preoccupation -Andean Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget female dipsomaniac; the spider man talks like a Pennsylvania Dutch commercial; the Emily Dickinson man has discovered from the lady poet's "image clusters" that she was a secret drunk, etc.) offer good clean fun to the middlebrow...
Another woman, 30, rarely drank herself, but when her dipsomaniac husband sobered up after periodic weeklong binges, she became so upset that she went on eating jags, gained 10 Ibs. in two weeks. ''I'd rather he drank." said she simply...
...suffered by his comrades only on the promise that he would give back on Saturday everything he had stolen during the week. Prosniak became a bona fide hero, killing dozens of Japanese-so he could collect souvenirs from their bodies. Then there was Lieut. Peter Claver Kenton, a delightful dipsomaniac with a habit of absenting himself from duty to work part time as a bowling-alley pin boy and as a desk clerk in a whorehouse...
...reader and is fairly successful. Its hero, who is blind in one eye, sees the tail end of a murder in a forest near London. After he is temporarily blinded in the other eye by an accident, the murderers capture him, and the action gets under way as a dipsomaniac doctor prepares to pour acid in the hero's good eye. The chase in the dark has the reader identified with the hero all the way. Justice, as it must in such a tale, triumphs...