Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread racial problems really are, Terry spent six months covering U.S. units in the field, traveling from the Demilitarized Zone in the north to Dong Tarn in the Delta. Says Terry, "These travels were often unofficially discouraged. In many places, white officers and sergeants looked on suspiciously as I drank, ate or talked with black Marines, soldiers and sailors in their barracks, mess halls, tanks and foxholes." One black Army sergeant major urged him to tone down his Afro hair style before he met the troops; Terry discovered that the sergeant had ordered his men to cut their hair before...
...York Giants bought Mc-Graw's genius in 1902 and made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...
...career in politics even after publicly acknowledging that he had paid blackmail to a woman. The fact that Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel, defending the honor of his wife, probably helped him get elected President. During his four years in the White House, Franklin Pierce often drank himself into a stupor, but, says Historian John Roche: "In those days it really didn't make much difference. The President didn't do anything anyway." Nor did Pierce ever mend his ways. "After the White House, what is there to do but drink?" he complained...
...privacy, relaxation and escape from responsibility. Politicians are bound to have their share of sins and foibles. Their problem, however, is not the foibles themselves but how to deal with them when they become public. The significance of the Chappaquiddick incident for Ted Kennedy is not whether he drank too much or planned a romp on the beach with the unfortunate Mary Jo. The key question, in the mind of the public, is why he took so long to report the accident. His self-confessed "inexplicable" behavior in a moment of stress raises the issue of how he might...
Though she became increasingly sophisticated politically, some of her friends thought that Mary Jo, at 28, was somewhat naive in social relationships. She was engagingly wholesome, did not smoke and rarely drank. Whenever she traveled, she telephoned her parents to tell them where she was. Says former R.F.K. Aide Wendell Pigman, "She was the kind of girl who almost scowled at hearing a dirty word...