Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow's Luzhniki sports grounds. In the biggest trial of its kind ever held in the Soviet capital, 2,000 Muscovites met at the stadium as a people's court to pass judgment on three "young healthy fellows" who were accused of having "wasted their youth" on drunken sprees, gambling, and black market dealings with foreigners. After the citizens voted unanimously to banish the wastrels from Moscow, all three were sentenced to five years' hard labor in what the authorities delicately called "a remote part of the country...
Five days later, when Radio Prague finally got around to reporting the anti-African outbursts, the regime glossed over the incident as the work of drunken hooligans. It was more serious than that. For months, Czechs have complained that subsidies to underdeveloped countries, including direct outlays to scholarship students, are responsible for Czechoslovakia's worsening living standard. And the black students in Prague sometimes seem to walk away with the prettiest girls...
...called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight. His Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired, sciatica-plagued witch of usury. As a syrup-tongued matchmaker, Zoe Caldwell steals laughs from Cronyn, and is the yeasty comic find of the company...
...parents are aging and broken; her lover lost all but his physical drives in the concentration camps. One of her brothers still tries to live by Darwinian prison morality, while the other drowns his self-pity in vodka. Throughout their actions parade chorus-like groups of foul-mouthed and drunken toughs, the spawn of occupation...
...Lords he began making news. Stirred by the frequency by which he was solicited by streetwalkers on his strolls around London, the Earl conducted a personal investigation, triumphantly produced the statistic that one of every 544 British women was a whore. He fortified himself for a debate on drunken driving by deliberately imbibing too much to test his own reactions, earned himself the unofficial title "The Plastered Peer...