Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-hour operation, Marmer told the girl to wake up. She did, promptly asking: "Is everything O.K.? Can I have a drink? I'm so thirsty!" The technique, Marmer suggested, should be limited to patients aged seven to 14 because they are the most suggestible subjects, with their "heightened powers of imagination and their ability to play a role or create a fantasy...
...thing that definitely will not change: the Army's attitude to indiscriminate sex and to spirituous drink. "Every one of the thousands of Salvationists," said General Kitching, "is a total abstainer. We deplore the easy thinking that exists today in the matter of sexual license and impurities...
...college in Tokyo, a coarse painter friend introduces Yozo to "the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make...
Both sides consulted astrologers and soothsayers (U Nu sent his favorite astrologer to India to check his findings with expert colleagues). Deputies were exhorted to drink "oath water" proffered by Buddhist monks, vowing allegiance to one side or the other. The opposition accused U Nu of being the sort of man "who, to gain power, would dig for buried treasure in his father's forehead," and charged him with entering an "unholy alliance" to deliver Burma to the Communists. Nu's supporters struck back by reviling Swe and Nyein as "American stooges" who wanted to force Burma into...
...again, they live on the Isle aux Chiens in the Gulf of Mexico. The kids run in packs; no one seems to mind the casual sleeping around, and gossip is the bloodstream of social life. When the men are not fishing or working on their boats, they drink and brawl. As Catholics, they sometimes go to the church at a mainland town and give a welcome of sorts to the priest when he visits the island. But tempers are quick, violence is always near the surface, and the blazing heat is the most prominent fact of life...