Word: drunken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation...
...Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...became involved in a street fight outside of a Pizza Ring on Western Avenue in Cambridge after Colono, who was waiting outside the restaurant for his pizza, insulted Pring-Wilson for apparently drunken behavior, police...
...first beer tonight. Unwisely, I reveal my destination for the next day. Klaus immediately offers to drive me. Or better, we’ll take his motorbike, which sits, hulking in the garage. I tremble at the very concept of an Autobahn ride behind this drunken Bavarian...
...COLD DAY in 1934 that James Houck hit bottom. Newly wedded and living in Frederick, Md., he was getting drunk every weekend--and sometimes even during the week--on home brew. He had recently been in a drunken-driving accident in his employer's car, and his drinking had estranged him from his wife Betty. "We were not married a month," Houck says, "before I told her I was sorry I ever saw her." Houck had begun drinking early, at age 5, when he would sneak sips from his mother's bottle of dandelion wine, then make up the difference...