Word: drinker
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...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...
Compared to, say, the computer industry in the past two decades, football has hardly changed. As a Dennis Miller fan and a beer drinker--there were approximately 6,000 Coors and Budweiser commercials during the three-hour game--I felt reasonably at home. Having forgotten a lot of gridiron lingo, I had no idea what a "fifth-place schedule" is, but Miller sure did. In fact, my listening to him debate the intricacies of a game I no longer completely understand must be similar to my aunt in Oklahoma trying to keep up with Miller on his HBO show...
...gray area," says one problem drinker experimenting with managed moderation. Right. Alcoholism loves gray areas. It thrives in the ambiguous zones...
...violet many in the media have portrayed her to be; she called her marriage to George W. a "partnership" and stressed her independence. She also offered a rebuttal to the well-worn rumor that she gave her husband the ultimatum that ended his career as a carousing, often heavy drinker. (When questioned about this last bit of speculation, her denial rang the first false note of the evening: She laughed it off, saying, "No, no. I never threatened him. We've never had any trouble in our marriage...
...turns out, changing the clocks was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a 1784 essay called "Turkey vs. Eagle, McCauley Is My Beagle." For those who do not know, Franklin was a drinker. Nevertheless, his idea was put into practice during World War I, when Congress forced the clocks ahead an hour to save electricity that would have been used to light people's homes at night. After the war, the clocks didn't go back, the Germans regrouped, and those trenches became traffic nightmares. Not a good...