Word: drinker
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HARD-PRESSED The world is rich with wine snobs, but there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...academic burdens and summer job stresses, and sometimes the weight of the world does seem to be pressing rather heavily on my spindly Anglo-Saxon shoulders. But no matter what happens, I've always got something to put a spring in my step. You see, I'm a binge drinker...
...then, in the pages of The Crimson, I read with mounting amazement that one can qualify as a "binge drinker" if one has, not eight or 18 or 28, but a scant five drinks in a single night. Forty-six percent of Harvard students, the study reported, make the cut--myself included. And 12 percent have the temerity to binge drink frequently--more than twice every two weeks, if you can imagine...
...five final club members describes himself as a "heavy drinker," compared to only one out of 20 Harvard students...
...night and the next day. Barbara and I had totally forgotten about it. Calvin, the police officer, came to our house and said, 'George, I got to take you in.' I don't know what really happened that night. George was with John Newcombe, a black-belt beer drinker. He was arrested for driving too slow. He accepted his responsibility...