Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shut up, Junior, and drink your blood...
...deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood of failings in the grim green mountains. Last year's suicide total...
...years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip or a proverb...
...Western dress arrested. Those who resisted had their clothes torn from them publicly by Tazi's police. "What is good for princesses," said the mendub, "is not good for other women. If our womenfolk put on Occidental clothes, they will try to become completely Occidental. They will drink, wear bathing suits and dance, and they will go to the beach by night and sleep with men on the sand...
...defect, with at least a hereditary tendency to the disease. But NIH pathologists at Bethesda have found widespread nerve cell destruction in brains of six kuru victims, suggesting that the cause may be some kind of poisoning. So an intensive, detailed study of everything that the Fore people eat, drink, smoke, or paint on their bodies is under...