Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the increase in recognition, athletes, who once regarded it as a sociable, fun-loving drinker's game, have begun to take it more seriously...
...records to be broken. Their book features two separate warnings that trying to break underwater endurance records is extremely dangerous. And their publisher--Guinness's lifeblood notwithstanding--flatly forbids records involving the consumption of more than two liters of liquor (except, apparently, in the case of "a hard drinker" named Vanhorn, who is said to have emptied 35,688 bottles of ruby port before succumbing in 1811) as well as "potentially dangerous categories such as consuming live ants, quantities of chewing gum or marshmallows, or raw eggs in shells...
...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...
...most especially in the last year," wrote Mills, "I had scarcely noticed that my drinking habits had changed perceptibly. I now realize, after several weeks of treatment by the doctors and soul-searching of my own, that I had developed a severe drinking problem, not as a daily drinker but as a periodic heavy drinker. I did not know that this pattern corresponds with what is known as alcoholism...
Mills thus joined New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and outgoing Iowa Senator Harold Hughes as an admitted problem drinker. The Arkansas Congressman has received counseling from Alcoholics Anonymous in the hospital, and he vows total abstinence in the future. Said he: "I have been a sick man who did not understand the nature of the illness...