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Word: drunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I look on the national scene, and I see drunk men at the head of the Government, and I see high-placed preachers on the President's staff dancing vulgar dances until 3 o'clock in the morning while our boys are fighting and dying in the jungles of Viet Nam, I cringe, I tell you. If that's the Great Society, I want no part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: A Different Kind of Johnson | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...empty except for a man who is drifting around in an inner tube, a martini glass in his hand, a party hat on his head. He is stoned. Into the pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: OK Everybody Out of the Pool | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...glimpse of glory. Cheever himself was offered the part of the floating souse, but he turned it down. "If I'm only going to be in one movie in my life," he said, "I'm damned if my grandchildren are going to see me drunk in a swimming pool." Instead, they will see Granddad playing a bystander in a smaller if more decorous role, which has already been filmed. "All I did," says Cheever, "was say 'Hi,' shake Lancaster's hand, and kiss Janet Landgard, which I liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: OK Everybody Out of the Pool | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...public to beating up policemen. Hooliganism is intimately associated with alcohol-fully 80% of arrested hooligans prove to be stoned on vodka or Georgian wine. Most of them regard the customary 15-day jail rap as a holiday from work. From now on, the fact that a man is drunk when he commits a crime is to be considered an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: Crime & Communism | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Paisley's Pattern | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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