Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamilton-Marshall, and their housekeeper, dark-haired Olive Brooker, Defendant Keeler had pleaded guilty to framing Jamaican Jazz Singer Aloysius ("Lucky") Gordon, a jilted lover of Christine's; he was first convicted, on her own sober testimony, of beating her and later released on the basis of her drunken tape-recorded confession that she had lied. Thus, as she was led from the half-empty courtroom with tears starting from her eyes, ended what Defense Counsel Hutchin son probably prematurely termed "the last chapter in this long saga that has been called the Keeler affair...
...Democratic Governor Jack M. Campbell: "I hope this takes some of the malice out of people and makes them realize that it is possible to disagree without being disagreeable or hateful." Judge Roy Mayhall, chairman of Alabama's Democratic Party, said: "America has been on a drunken spree of hate, and we in Alabama share the blame." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with U.S. citizens to "pledge ourselves to fight this tendency of hatred and violence." And Dr. James R. Allen, a Baptist minister in Dallas, said from his Thanksgiving Day pulpit that Kennedy's death...
...seven hours before the police found the station wagon, and it was many hours after that before they began investigating reports started by drunken demolition workers who had wandered into nearby bars to celebrate. After three days, the demolition site was aswarm with FBI agents and police, combing the debris for glitter. They pumped water out of the basement of the abandoned building, screening the water for baubles, while downstream, eager laborers panned for gold. They picked and they plucked and they poked. After persistent questioning, some of the demolition workers began talking, and five men were arrested. Nearly...
When his hangover fades on the morning after, the drunken driver of the night before may turn defensively argumentative. The cops, he usually claims, exaggerated his alcoholic difficulties. If he was lucky enough to escape a serious accident, and cautious enough not to submit his telltale breath to a drunk-ometer's measurement, he can often make his story stick...
Persuasive it is. These days only about one out of every 20 Denverites charged with drunken driving is acquitted. The films not only keep tanked-up drivers from escaping punishment, but also drastically reduce the number who demand a jury trial. Before a case comes into court, the accused is shown a screening of his on-camera performance. Nine times out of ten, the sight of himself wobbling through the tests is enough to convince the driver that he ought to plead guilty...