Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor "like a drunken man" (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah "walked naked and barefoot three years" (Isaiah 20: 3). Many of their Jewish contemporaries were skeptical of the prophets-and some people are skeptical still. Literary critics may see Isaiah as nothing more than a wild Hebrew bard, and psychoanalysts may explain the posturings and mutters of Hosea as the upshot of repressed sexual feelings...
...womanly urge to create something, anything, is fulfilled just once-when she twists some tinfoil into the semblance of a sculptured forest scene and is admired for it. "The communication of my life," she sums herself up, "a kiss in mid-ocean between myself and a half-drunken seaman. The creation of my life-oh my God!-a silver-paper shape fashioned from the remains of an empty cigarette packet...
...drunken driver ran wild on Bow and Mt. Auburn Sts. at 12:45 a.m. this morning, side-swiping eight cars, flattening two parking meters, and attracting an excited crowd of at least 50 students. He was finally stopped in front of Elsie...
...impossible not to laugh at the grotesque sight of an intoxicated Mason lying triumphant in a dirty bathtub, balancing his drink on his chest, following the death of his wife. A couple of neighbors come in to commiserate, and suddenly Humbert has to act sorry himself amidst his drunken stupor. Then the apologetic father of the cab driver who killed Mrs. Haze enters and offers to pay for the funeral expenses. Humbert, now quite confused, agrees, much to his benefactor's dismay...
...idiot, 'whispering like a drunken...