Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clear Solution. In Memphis, James Neal was freed from a drunk charge after, he told the court that he was merely trying to cure a gallstone attack with a remedy compounded of beer, Epsom salts, vinegar, water, gin and laundry bluing...
Most just sat and talked of the violent events of the past days, speculated fearfully of violence still to come. But some also drank from jugs of the fiery illicit skokiaan until it was time to meet the evening trains from town. Drunk and angry, they grabbed stones, sticks and jagged pieces of metal to greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them...
...having some party," an outsized tribesman yelled. Invited to join in an exuberant native dance, Billy took a tentative couple of steps, then thought better of it. Drawing himself up, he lectured the dancers: "When you have Christ in your hearts, you won't want to get drunk again." As he left the startled celebrators, he mused: "Somehow I don't think I made much impression on them, but you never know...
Most treacherous of all is nitrogen narcosis-"rapture of the depths." Below 140 ft. the buildup of nitrogen in a diver's body somehow drugs his senses as alcohol does. Magnificently drunk, the diver becomes an underwater god. He may offer his mouthpiece to a passing fish. Maurice Fargues, a great diver on the Cousteau team, was brought up dead from 394 ft., his mouthpiece hanging loose around his neck. "I personally am quite receptive to nitrogen narcosis," says Cousteau. "I love it and fear it like doom...
Tiamat marries the editor's daughter, who, like all of the author's women, is impossibly beautiful, strong, passionate, lov ing and wise (for instance, she knows that as miners get silicosis. matadors are gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures...