Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard steps out into the parking lot now, waves to the cheering crowd, walks to the screen to sign autographs. "Thanks for a pennant, Ellie," a girl shouts. A drunk asks, "We'll do it next year, won't we, Ellie...
Crew-cutted manager Dick Williams comes out now, signing scores of autographs but unable to smile. "We'll do it next year, won't we, Dick?" the drunk repeats. "I hope we'll be stronger next year," Williams says quietly. " I hope so, I hope...
...savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing. Yet the title, piling allegory upon allusion, comes from John McNulty's Third Avenue Medicine: "The snake is an ordinary little vein . . . that runs along the left temple of a man's head"-and distends when he is drunk...
...those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save the Queen round the pub piano...
...Last year the toll reached 52,500. Well over half the drivers may have been drinking to the legal point of intoxication before the accidents occurred. To cope with this situation, the National Safety Council in 1961 recommended a stiffening of statutory lim its set to separate sober from drunk drivers. The blood alcohol level* indicating intoxication, advised the N.S.C., should be lowered from .15% to .10%. Some states have adopted the new limit, but is .10% still too high for safety...