Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget female dipsomaniac; the spider man talks like a Pennsylvania Dutch commercial; the Emily Dickinson man has discovered from the lady poet's "image clusters" that she was a secret drunk, etc.) offer good clean fun to the middlebrow...
...modern weapons, including French jet fighters, to crush any possible black rebellion (this year South Africa's defense budget will reach a record high of $180 million). Reporting on "sabotage schools" in neighboring black countries, Justice Minister Vorster said: "We are dealing with stupid people who are power-drunk. But we are ready for whatever they are planning against South Africa." Said Afrikaaner Student Leader Tertius Delport, referring to the country's growing international isolation: "The white South African has become the polecat of the world...
...This harsh judgment may overlook the fact that Britain was never the sort of place Victorian morality pretended it was. If London today resembles Babylon-on-Thames, it is little more than a de luxe model of the brutal, carnal 18th century city whose brothels, boudoirs and gin shops ("Drunk for a Penny, Dead Drunk for Tuppence") were pictured by Hogarth, Richardson and Fielding...
...diabetic who has a "shock" reaction to his insulin is likely to be mistaken for a drunk; he may die in the lockup before anybody realizes what is wrong. A person who is allergic to penicillin or tetanus antitoxin may die within minutes after an injection which is routinely given to accident victims. Heart patients on a precise digitalis dosage and arthritics on steroid hormones are in serious danger if their medication is suddenly stopped. Atropine, or similar drugs, given to glaucoma patients may contribute to blindness...
...detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...