Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinker and still haven't found anything you feel like doing, the New England Aquarium has announced that October will be Monster Month, starring the Loch Ness Monster. A 24-minute film on Nessie will be shown Monday through Friday at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., weekends...
Carter does not fit many Southern stereotypes. He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur. His humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected...
...timing. He knows just when to end a scene, and exactly how much sentimentality to balance against exactly how much humor. Above all, he has an ear for dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure of one drinker saying of another, "Hell, Skip wouldn't pass up a drink if he had to squeeze it out of an armadillo...
...after they had begun treatment. Then they went back to eight of the centers to interview in depth 1,340 patients 18 months after their initial treatment. In the latter group, which consisted of those who had been downing more than nine times the alcoholic consumption of the average drinker, more than half were unemployed and separated or divorced. After a year and a half, about 70% had shown significant improvement. While about a third of the improved had abstained for at least six months, another third were drinking normally, and the remaining alcoholics were imbibing heavily on occasion...
...screen some clean-cut radicals were holding their arms up against a wall waiting to be frisked. Al and the Lite drinker on my right discussed Hank, an old jockey...