Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their aprons, unthinking cogs in a linear birth process, yes, but providing indispensable impetus nonetheless for the black tongue belt which spews forth from the belly of the Whale Motor Co. into the bosom of the general public wide track yachts, highway cruisers, gold-plated luxo-boats which drank Arab blood and ferried the rich and damned descendants of the former rootless races--Jews, yes, and Pilgrims too, as well as the sons of slaves! In the funeral Cadillac, all men are equal! What satisfaction for the poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests...
Head Pounding. The North Carolina team, led by Psychiatrist John Ewing, gave laboratory cocktails of ginger ale and ethyl alcohol, measuring the amount of alcohol so that each subject drank an amount proportionate to his body weight. The volunteers were then questioned and tested for two hours to gauge the effect of the cocktail. The tests revealed a striking difference. After drinking, the Westerners tended to feel relaxed, confident, alert and happy; the Orientals were more likely to experience muscle weakness, pounding in the head, dizziness and anxiety...
...Washington. Many of their neighbors were out of work, or could find work only occasionally and on a short-term basis. The families of the men who worked the least generally were also the families who had the most anxieties and crises in their family relationships, the families who drank the most, who lived the hardest and least stereotypical lives in the community. The more settled families on surrounding streets looked down at Howell's neighbors. In their eyes, the Mosebys next door and the Shackelfords in the run-down, soon-to-be-condemned house three doors away were little...
...saving money for their children's future. They still mentioned these dreams as their dreams and spoke of them in the same terms as the families who saved their money and did live for the future. But their actions implied that they no longer believed in their dreams. They drank hard, they lived for the present, and so they posed a threat to their conservative, sober, church-going neighbors who believed that people could rise in the system by saving, by living stable lives, by waiting for the big break that would inevitably come...
Leaving home at 14, Haggard stole cars and drank, basically--bumming around the country for five years. He finally ended up doing a couple of years in San Quentin. (Drunk, he had tried to burglarize a cafe which wasn't even closed. He says prison frightened him into "reforming...