Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot from your wife. If you live another ten years and then drop dead, your widow will have 115,200 cr. [$606.31] in the bank-enough to raise the kids, pay off the mortgage, marry a good man and forget that she ever knew a drunken bum like...
...cast, already turned avid drama enthusiasts from their own work, recently saw the HDC production of Troilus and Cressida ("That drunken guy was a riot") and there many of them acquired a further taste for Shakespeare. Ann-Marie "Turtle" Cottagio, who would "love to act professionally," said she would like to do a Shakespeare play next, to which a well over six foot, well over 200 pound football player, Richard Herman replied that he would be Shylock. But Dempsey, the playwright, thinks Shakespeare...
...Andreoli, 58, a longtime coach at La Scala, was a typical example of verismo (an operatic movement comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play by Chekhov, the opera had to do with a )': drunken bum masquerading as an admiral at a wedding party. Exposed when he fails to identify a snatch of Morse code, the -phony admiral exits, announcing with sad dignity: "If I were really a nobleman, I would challenge you all to a duel." The Admiral was studded with the kind...
...truck, she loaded up her children, table, two cots, mattresses, bookshelf and six cooking pots. Neighbors surrounded the truck. A man yelled, "You think you are high-class now, you black whore! You write about us and make lots of money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard, and the driver roared through the mob. The favela-dwellers gave chase, brandishing clubs and rotten vegetables until...
...Salisbury. But in Bulawayo, which means Place of Slaughter, trouble still seethed. Government officials banned an N.D.P. meeting. Next day nearly three-quarters of the labor force went out on strike in protest and gangs of hooligans beat up Africans who refused to lay down their tools. In a drunken orgy of looting and burning, African thugs smashed into banks, post offices and welfare buildings, attacked even African-owned beerhalls and shops...