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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cyclos (cycle taxis, 14? a ride). Shrimp and snail vendors crouched behind their tiny stalls clacking metal scissors-the noisy symbol of their trade. Almond-skinned girls in straw hats and pajamalike silk costumes strolled hand-in-hand to school, and at midnight there was the customary flood of drunken soldiers and giggling tarts as the taxi-dance joints closed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: City in Danger | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...drunken Cambridge man allegedly molested two unidentified Radcliffe students and an elderly woman as they strolled through Cambridge Common at 10 p.m. last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Radcliffe Girls, Elderly Woman Assaulted in Cambridge Common | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

...three women walked through the dimly-lit Common, the attacker is said to have suddenly jumped from the shadows and knocked down one of them. Their frantic screams were answered by two passersby who grappled with the drunken man until he appeared to reach for a knife. He field on foot. The two men walked the women home, advising them to phone the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Radcliffe Girls, Elderly Woman Assaulted in Cambridge Common | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

...Good Companion. In North Sacramento, charged with drunken driving, Daniel Bean pleaded innocent, was asked if he had any witnesses to support his plea, got six months in jail when he replied: "No sir, judge. They were all drunker than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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