Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also Food. Dr. Chafetz has no use for bluenoses, legislators and judges who equate drinking with crime. He doubts that even fatal auto accidents involving drunken drivers are primarily the result of drinking: in most cases, he says, there is an underlying mental disturbance...
...most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin again, in a duel role...
...SPAIN. Despite its seasonal fiesta spirit, Spain is often harsh about dress or conduct that offends its moral sensibilities. Overexposure in cities, for example, can bring quick arrest. Drunken or boisterous visitors may find themselves barred from Spain indefinitely. For minor tourist crimes, Spanish courts usually recommend deportation. There are no juries, and judges can be tough on foreigners accused of illegally exporting art objects, leaving the scene of an accident, or failing to pay a hotel bill, to say nothing of criticizing Franco. Accused tourists should forget trying to skip the country. Spanish police are quite efficient. Happily, this...
...piled his wife and nine children, aged two to 18, into his 1958 secondhand Buick. Though his license had been revoked, Sherod drove recklessly from their tenement flat in Jersey City to a restaurant in Newark, N.J., where his wife worked as a waitress. There, Sherod got into a drunken argument with his wife, hustled the children out to the car. Moments later, he returned wielding a knife, threatened his wife and hit her, forced her to accompany him to the car. Said Mrs. Sherod's sister, who also worked in the restaurant: "He said he was going...
Colorado requires local police to file state reports on all drunken drivers. To avoid that technicality, Greenwood's cops allegedly ordered motorists to get out of their cars, then charged them with being "drunk in a public place," a tactic yielding fines of up to $300 without the state's being the wiser. Couples found necking or simply talking in parked cars were also ticketed for being "nude above the waist" or "nude below the waist"-noncrimes that earned speedy payoffs from embarrassed victims...