Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even when I was drinking a lot, I never said, "How much whiskey did I drink today...
...smoke a lot more weed than I can drink whiskey...
Edward Treanor, a 31-year-old civil servant, was enjoying a New Year's Eve drink with his new girlfriend at her pub, the Clifton Tavern in Catholic North Belfast. At 9:07 p.m. two masked men, one armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
...American life, in a dozen paragraphs of bar conversation. "He had the sweetest nature," says a cousin. "He found a way to like everyone, he really did...He could always get you laughing." Another voice: "God, wasn't he funny?" The author interpolates: "Not missing the irony of the drinks in their hands and the drink that had killed him, but redeeming, perhaps, the pleasure of a drink or two, on a sad, wet afternoon, in the company of old friends, from the miserable thing that a drink had become in his life." McDermott goes on, deadly accurate: "The fruit...
When an underage college student makes it his part-time job to secure and drink alcohol it can indeed jeopardize public safety. It can end independent businesses. It can result in a clerk's inability to buy groceries for his family. It can and has resulted in young lives ended all too soon...