Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some pressure to the race: "All these people keep telling me that they're going to come down and watch me and Jeez, what if I drop out? I tell everybody that it's my problem, not theirs. After it's all over I'm going to get drunk...
Milton Eisenhower, Samuel Houston Johnson, and Donald Nixon; dull college president, drunk gambler, and shady businessman respectively didn't have people tripping over each other trying to get their autographs...
...still make exciting sense of the world. Yet a recitation of the novel's bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework. Her dream...
...Cheever's suburbias, trying to live up to Leander's morality usually results in grotesquely declasse behavior. Cold water is rarely drunk, let alone bathed in. The ideal gentle woman frequently turns out to be a lusting destroyer of traditional order. The Lord appears to have abandoned the lawns and shopping malls to nymphs and satyrs...
...stand behind the Torrijo regime because of its successful "banana war" against United Brands. Suddenly he strips off the portrait of worker dignity and lays bare his outsider's insight into the weekly flight that keeps them going: "They are inclined to begin after early Mass on Sunday. When drunk they bark like dogs...