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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers-a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with plenty to cushion her fall. Pretty soon a storm comes up, and he plane goes down in a jungle inhabited by headhunters. Everybody is terribly worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...appalled by the action of Sergeant Matthew McKeon, but I felt the Corps would certainly give him his just punishment. The Corps still had a chance to prove itself. Then came the disgraceful verdict. Such a hue and cry about the poor Sergeant! Isn't the drunken, sadistic murder of six supposedly superior youngsters-isn't that bad conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...fight to calm down the American servicemen in their country. Having spent four years in the U.S. Navy, I have seen broken and ruined furniture in some of the finest hotels in Europe, all left behind by G.Ls. As a lot they are a group of vulgar-mouthed, bragging, drunken apes who roam the streets of foreign countries seeking someone to insult or something to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Time for Sergeants. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunken driving, Archie Ransom gave police a handwriting specimen reading, "I love you; I love you," was fined $150 after he told the judge that he harbored no such affections for the cops: "I guess I must have been thinking of my wife; I love her very dearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Bluntly, alumni Class Reunions--especially the 25th--have become characterized as drunken brawls. A typical description tion, appearing in The New York Times Magazine several years ago, spoke of "the grotesque costumes, the irrational deportment, and the genial acceptance by the institution's money-raising departments of disorder which at any other time would cause the High Command to put in a hurry call for the campus Gestapo to get in there and do its stuff...

Author: By Samuel J. Walker, | Title: Harvard's Alumni: The Old Grad Grows Up | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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