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Word: drinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also features an incredibly humiliating competition for election to the staff, which culminates in "Fool Week," during which aspiring funnymen get to follow orders from sadistic 'Poonies, make total fools of themselves both in public and in the dark reaches of the Castle (where only editors can go), and drink themselves sick. All in good fun. Sure...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Harvard Publications: The Good, the Bad and the Silly | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Approach #5. The Let's Be Obnoxious Approach. Drink a lot. Try without any style whatsoever to lose you virginity. Get into water fights with kids in the dorm across the way. Buy a lot of Roger Dean posters and put them up in your living room. Cut down your roommates. Throw up a least once. Alienate everyone while you have a good time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Approaches | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Play touch football in the Yard. If you have a TV, watch the baseball Game of the Week (NBC is Channel 4 around here). Drink beer and hang out. Meet people...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Welcome to Freshman Week--How About a Game of Catch? | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...perches at the bar. A thug who looks amazingly like a malevolent Kojak starts eyeballing him. The creature, a popeyed Candide named Kermit the Frog, had just hopped in for a quick one en route to Hollywood, but now Madeline Kahn, slinking alongside him, coos: "Buy me a drink, sailor?" Soon Kermit the Frog finds himself arguing with Telly Savalas about warts. Behind them a sinister crew of rogues are tearing up the place. This is clearly no club for an honest frog; the menu even features french fried frog's legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Muppets Make the Big Move | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting grass in it." Most gum kits are sold by mail from his headquarters in Arlington, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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