Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Utah's non-Mormons, the News is still unrealistically rigid. "If those fellows would just sit back, have a drink and light up a big black cigar," says a top state Democrat, "maybe they'd be closer to human." To the editors of the News, that sort of statement just proves their point about the low state of morals in America...
Journeying out with the money in her handbag, she is soon spotted as an easy mark. A predatory woman coaxes her to her home and spikes her drink; the old lady passes out, and her purse is rifled for everything but small change after which she is unceremoniously dumped in an alley. She develops pneumonia; teams of doctors save her life but not her mind. In the shadows of the apartment, the old lady withdraws into herself to bicker with the whisperers, who have settled in to stay...
...family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink and violence...
...York City's population, for example, Los Angeles averages more than three times as many drunk arrests-100,000 a year. Yet, as the presidential commission sees it, arresting drunks is fruitless anywhere. Not only do "revolving-door jails" intensify the despair that drives men to drink in the first place; they also compound the police problem. In Washington, D.C., a survey turned up six chronic offenders who had been arrested a total of 1,409 times and served a collective 125 years in jail. In Los Angeles, 20% of drunk arrests involve repeaters who wind up in jail...
...Consider Charlie Smith, who last week celebrated what he calculated to be his 125th birthday in Bartow, Fla. A spry ex-slave, Charlie runs a small cold-drink and candy shop and thrives on raw sausages, crackers, 7UP, and telling people how old he is. Naturally, he has his secrets of longevity: "I never drink no green [plain] milk-only chocolate. I don't eat no table food-cooked stuff is not too good...