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Word: drunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father was an alcoholic, he has been arrested 70 times for public intoxication-a "crime" for which Washington arrests 44,000 people a year. While such police work tidies up the streets, the fact that 70% of the arrests involve repeaters like Easter suggests that Washington's anti-drunk laws are more punitive than preventive. And it is just this premise that has spurred some highly sober Washington lawyers to make Easter's latest conviction a national test case aimed at finding alternatives to the present practice of treating alcoholics like criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Dreyfus of Drunks | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...John Gernart '65-3 and Gail Gillam '65-3, were standing outside B Entry when they saw two strange youths enter the building. "We thought they were Yalies," Gerhart said. "They were obviously drunk." A few minutes later, however, one of the youths reappeared with a portable T.V. in his hand and an L.P. record and some shirts sticking out of his jacket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student, Date Nab Inebriated Youth Stealing a T.V., Record, and Shirts | 11/23/1964 | See Source »

...Alfred Damon Runyan,-as he was born in Manhattan, Kans., faced worse odds than that. His father was a sometime newspaper publisher reduced to typesetting and the bottle. His mother died when he was seven. Before he was out of his teens he was both a newspaperman and a drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Sentimental Cynic | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

After ten days of hearings, including last-minute testimony from a girl friend of 17-year-old Nancy Hitchings that Nancy did not seem to be drunk when she saw her a couple of hours before she drove off into the night with Michael Smith to her death, Judge Rodney Eielson found Michael guilty of reckless driving and negligent homicide. The judge concluded that Michael, not Nancy, was driving, on such simple physical evidence as the discovery of Nancy's blood on the right side of the car roof. He sentenced him to six months in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: More in Sorrow | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...make oneself desire a female member of it." He follows a dog through town, almost becomes a dog, is "in any case no longer human." He kills a rat. He takes a long walk in the rain, sees a drowned man, tries to call his girl, gets drunk. Finally he goes the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petrified Nature | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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