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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although loaded down with gimmicks, Casablanca is so earnestly presented that it is totally believable. Bogart, drunken and knocking over glasses waiting for a woman, is deadly impressive and even the tour de force ending made up of denoument upon denoument is almost tearfully convincing...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: Casablanca | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Going Straight. In Brisbane, Australia, former driving instructor Harry Webster has opened an all-night service for chauffeuring drunken drivers safely to their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...longtime indifference of staidest Dutchmen to one of Europe's worst red-light districts has recently been shaken by a series of brutal murders. On New Year's Eve, 1957, Chinese Annie was strangled, and her killer escaped; in 1958 a drunken Norwegian sailor threw Finnish Hennie out of a window. Early last month Amsterdamers heard unsavory details of life in De Walletjes during the trial of Joop Scheide, a pimp who was~sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for killing a harlot called Lean Jossie. Scheide explained that he had only meant to give the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Girls from De Walletjes | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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