Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the fastest-growing activities in U.S. guerrilla programs is the use of military units to take on civic action projects in underdeveloped nations. The theory is that guerrillas can operate successfully only when the civilians are in sympathy with them. To win loyalty from native populations and make...
The blaze of bombs, the flash of blades, the eerie glow of fire, the keening cries of hatred, the wild dance of terror in the night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath...
Over the Cliff. On the night of the Guantanamo killing, said Szili, he had been drinking with Jackson, his company commander, at a base officers' club. Ruben Lopez, a Cuban employed as a base bus driver, was also there. "Other Cuban employees at Gitmo," Szili recalled, "had told us...
Why any hapless commuter would want to bump to work on the wheezing New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad defies reason. Dusty seats, dirty floors, sooty windows, one toilet, no towels, no drinking water-that is what he gets. But 200 oldtime commuters (average age: 55) who prefer such rigors to...
Atrocious Crimes. Byron was 27, and his bride, the former Annabella Milbanke, had just turned 23; their marriage lasted not quite a year. Its failure has variously been attributed to Byron's incestuous relationship with his half sister Augusta Leigh, to his heavy drinking, his mental instability, his not...