Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later, Frye jumped in front of him and shouted, "Go ahead, kill me!" A backup patrolman arrived and, with shotgun at the ready, held the crowd at bay while Minikus and his partner hustled Frye, a brother and their mother off to the station. Frye later pleaded guilty to drunken driving; his brother pleaded guilty to battery and interfering with officers; but their mother pleaded not guilty to a charge of interfering with an officer...
...bricks and bottles. Not Satisfied. Next morning the Fire Department suspended the fire-truck driver and the company's captain-and shifted a predominantly Negro company to the firehouse. But the disorders flared even higher that day, possibly fanned by a leaflet distributed by ACT that proclaimed: "DRUNKEN WHITE FIREMAN KILLS BLACK WOMAN"-prefaced in minute type: "Allegedly." The second-day riot lasted for nine hours; 18 policemen and 42 civilians were hospitalized, 105 persons jailed. The FBI was investigating the origin of another, anonymous leaflet distributed in the area. "After years of frame-ups, brutality and intimidation...
...thing seemed straight out of a science-fiction thriller. It floated inches off the ground, sounded like a chain saw, and maneuvered like a drunken crab. The contraption stopped alongside a plane bound for Los Angeles, and Oakland Mayor John Houlihan stepped out onto the deck, shouting into a microphone: "Gentlemen, this has been a wonderful experience! We're really going to pioneer in this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim...
...less masterful is Lee Marvin's raw but incisive portrayal of a broken-down ballplayer who compresses his whole wretched life into a drunken, sobbing outburst about his inability to hit a curve ball on the outside corner. His table partner is an aging, embittered divorcee (Vivien Leigh), who reacts with exquisite distaste to a recital of his gastric misadventures in Mexico. Many scenes later, in a fit of sexual combustion, she beats Marvin nearly insensible with the heel of her gilded slipper...
...drunken quarrel flared in the shabby Newark apartment when Aaron R. Rudesel suddenly began berating his girl friend, Dollie Fair. After Aaron warmed up, he hit Dollie in the mouth. She brandished a knife; he cut her with another. A third member of the party, named John B. Lynn, jumped up blearily and cried, "Man, you shouldn't cut your woman like that." As the men grappled, Dollie fled. In the melee, Rudesel was stabbed, and then Lynn took...