Word: drank
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Recreational pot, hashish, uppers, downers and hallucinogens were part of campus reality. Not everyone drugged but most drank something and cigarette smoking was an acceptable social activity. Adult-like sex was now quite available as well and there was much discussion about "free love," communal living, black separatist states and even revisiting the "back to Africa" vision of Paul Cuffe and Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I seemed to focus on being sure that I was making my own and not peer-pressured decisions about who I wanted...
...Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Part memoir, part medical investigation into fetal-alcohol syndrome, especially among Native Americans, The Broken Cord was a best seller and became a 1992 made-for-TV movie. It also sparked congressional hearings into the syndrome and brought awareness of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy...
...Sometimes everyone else who can drink regular milk has gone and drank my soy milk behind my back," says Ramage, a Crimson editor. "I get so made because I need...
...paranoia movie. With their matching, unisex crew cuts and Henley-collared blue shirts, they resembled the modern SoCal monks they claimed to be. While the mansion was itself hardly monastic with its tennis courts, putting green, and indoor elevator, its residents practiced celibacy, and neither smoked nor drank. They followed strict rules of diet. Neighbors never saw more than a few at a time, coming and going or perhaps at the local pancake house. No one was ever playing tennis. The thirty-nine dead computer monks at 18241 Colina Norte were not all young. They had their elders; "Father John...
...those days, the managers were more prestigious. It was more of a fun job than it is now," Gillette says, adding that he also played a little golf and "drank a lot too much...