Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucky; I could go back to Radcliffe. Looking back I can pick out some of the worst incidents. One night, two guys came in, ordered two cups of coffee and twenty creams, and said. "We're on welfare; it's the cheapest nourishment we can get." They drank all the creams and built a little pyramid of empty creamer cups--with no tip underneath. Another night, I dropped a tray of Muffins on the floor, began to throw them all away, and found the manager scowling down at me, asking what I was doing. "Those muffins are perfectly good...
...talks were going. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. fumed about the low-key reception and grumbled that the sole Chinese concession seemed to be that "they did not make President Nixon stop for red lights." Buckley eventually suggested in print that some slight was also intended because Chou drank "to the health" of President Nixon instead of toasting him directly. Of Nixon's performance he snapped, "I would not have been surprised if he had lurched into a toast of Alger Hiss...
...Just as millions of Americans, undeterred by the Volstead Act, drank liquor illegally before Prohibition was repealed, so millions are now smoking marijuana. Scientists estimate that some 24 million have tried the drug. Three million are believed to use it from one to four times a month, another 5,000,000 smoke it at least once a week, and 500,000 daily or even more often. Within five years, believes Psychologist William McGlothlin of the University of California at Los Angeles, there may be 6,000,000 to 12 million weekly users and from 800,000 to 2.5 million daily...
Ambivalence. Fay and Cliff were married in 1961 and soon had a son Josh. Their life together was never idyllic. "He drank heavily," Lipton recalls. "His favorite pastime was to get high and spin fantasies of fame and fortune." Sometimes he beat Fay. Apparently he also gambled and womanized, and then lied about his activities to Fay and his friends. For all that, Irving Wallace recalls, "Cliff was a winning person, a little egocentric but very charming, loose and easy...
...Well, before I came on stage I smoked about a half pound of something, and drank a few pints of something else. But I'm just going to keep on boogie...