Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terror in the Streets. Widows told of drunken Japanese soldiers leading their husbands and sons out to be killed. Witness after witness described bayonetings, shootings, the sight of singing, drunken Japanese throwing grenades, setting fires, defiling bodies...
...Blood centers usually excluded drunken donors just to avoid rowdiness; the amount of alcohol that can be transferred by plasma ranges from slight to zero...
Peter Aitken, 34. auto-racing second son of Lord Beaverbrook (and brother of bemedalled R.A.F. veteran Max Aitken) was fined $42 and given a two months' jail sentence for drunken driving in London...
Elfego decided to become a Socorro County deputy sheriff one afternoon when five drunken cowboys castrated a Mexican while a peace officer stood idly nearby. Elfego believed the law should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough...
When he was indicted for murder, his frantic family hired a lawyer whose name, they had seen in newspaper crime stories, a stocky, drunken gangland attorney named William W. O'Brien. The state's whole case rested on Vera Walush's testimony but O'Brien, unsteady with drink, did not question it. Joe pleaded for a chance to go on the stand himself. O'Brien waved him off. The jury's verdict: guilty -99 years in the penitentiary...