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Word: drinkingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere in Central Europe's vodka belt is there a harder-drinking nation than Poland, where doctors estimate that 1,500,000 of the country's 31 million people drink too much. Last year Poles managed to down 118 million quarts of vodka, wine and beer, or almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Roll Out the Bottle | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

To Poland's red-faced commissars, the country's drinking problem is no laughing matter. Radio Warsaw commented that in the province of Zielona Gora, workers lost 130,000 man-hours in a recent three-month period because of absenteeism, much of it "from the abuse of alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Roll Out the Bottle | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Off to the Stadium. If the latest crackdown follows form, it will not leave the slightest dent in alcoholism. An 18% price increase in vodka last November and the gradual introduction of wine and beer have had no effect on consumption of stronger stuff. Instead, said one journalist, beer is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Roll Out the Bottle | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

One Voyager officer was walking along a corridor when the Melbourne's bow knifed through a few yards behind him, and he was swept out through the hole left by the collision. Another officer was drinking coffee in the wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Collision Stations! | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Cambridge is still drinking fluoridated water and the City Council wants to know why. Some sort of answer should come Monday night, when William H. McGinness, Superintendent of the Water Department, responds to Councillor Walter J. Sullivan's order calling for a personal report on the matter.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fluoride Lingers In City's Water | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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