Word: drank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alcohol was implicated in up to 70% of the 4,000 drowning deaths last year and in about 30% of the nearly 30,000 suicides. A Department of Justice survey estimates that nearly a third of the nation's 523,000 state-prison inmates drank heavily before committing rapes, burglaries and assaults. As many as 45% of the country's more than 250,000 homeless are alcoholics...
Exactly when did I become addicted to alcohol? I don't know that either. The addiction was preceded by a delusion: I thought I drank to socialize. Maybe I did. My alcoholism took years to develop into a chronic affliction, and during much of that time I went to bars after work, one of the guys. The delusion was gradually reinforced by gravitation. I mingled more and more with other persistent drinkers who took longer and longer to call for their bar tabs. Most of us were actually alcoholics in varying stages of development. The nonalcoholics had long ago selected...
Press: "Sir, there are rumors that you drank a beer while underage at prep-school...
...friend called up on the phone and asked, `Where's the noise?'" Gray says. "A few drank beer but that was okay; they couldn't solve the puzzles...
Those who might have liked some wine with their Head of the Charles picnic drank soda and probably stewed in indignation. After all, anyone bound and determined to get behind the wheel of a car pickled simply drank. It's just too easy to empty a can of soda and fill it with straight vodka. Bloody Marys, daquiries, rum-and-Cokes, they all circulated--in tomato juice cans...