Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> On planes: "A child throwing up is an unpleasant circumstance," to forestall which Traveler Hadley has discovered what she calls a "miracle preflight diet: Six hours before the flight, a little toast, coffee, tea or one-half glass of milk, and some tinned peaches with heavy syrup; 4 hours before...
Sickness unto Death. A proud and laconic man, Leamas is outraged by such chatter. Gruffly he shakes off the question and takes the job. Dutifully he deteriorates in public: getting himself fired from his position in London, drinking heavily, finally brawling his way into a term in jail-all to...
The positions of the three territories are radically different. Little Nyasaland, which becomes the independent state of Malawi on July 6, has some 3,500,000 people and virtually no resources except its brilliant but megalomaniacal leader Dr. Banda. Northern Rhodesia, which will obtain full independence next fall as the...
By law, no liquor can be sold in Maharashtra state, of which Bombay is the capital, and this has spawned the same speakeasies, gangsterism and pervasive corruption as did Prohibition in the U.S. So after 14 years of failure to stop drinking, Maharashtra state has finally given up just as...
With the coming of World War II, Bucky Fuller made a major sacrifice. "I drink very well," he explains, "but I found that if I was talking about my inventions and drinking, people just wrote them off as so much nonsense. The war was something serious, and I wanted to...