Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter likes to tell the story about a drunk hauled into a Georgia court, accused of starting a hotel fire while smoking in bed. He admits being drunk but denies igniting the blaze. "Your honor," he tells the judge, "the bed was already on fire when...
...43rd Street for a fortuneteller reported to have precisely predicted the time of the President's death by reading tea leaves. Two FBI men sat patiently at the bedside of a witness who professed to know the names of six people involved in the killing, but was too drunk to stand. Investigators listened to a woman who was certain that her husband's family had something to do with the slaying. Why? Because they were "mean" people. Agents checked out accusations that Lyndon Johnson and George Wallace were behind the murder. A Logan, Utah, man got a respectful...
...1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less than ideal profession...
...victim, who asked not to be identified, said the man, who was noticeably drunk, asked for directions to Leverett House, walked out of the room but then walked back in and said, "I am a junkie. Give me your money...
...pubs in Canada as well). A drinker merely drops a quarter in a slot and blows in a straw. The machine then registers the alcohol level in his or her blood. In most states, anyone with a reading of more than .10% alcohol in the blood is considered legally drunk...