Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East seethed with stories of their excesses. Nearly every Cairo nightclub had its Saudi prince surrounded by procurers and willing belly dancers. There were stories of a $15 tip given a waiter for a box of matches, of girls getting diamond rings just by admiring them, of a drunken Saudi prince staggering into an "exclusive Egyptian club shouting: "Pigs, stand up in the presence of a prince of the royal house of Saud...
Lathrap lived in an Indian village 12 miles from the excavation site and was present at several native tribal festivals. He called them "drunken brawls...
...three innings, that July night in 1936, righthanded Bob Feller faced nine Cardinals and struck out eight. He had as much control, one sportswriter reported, as a drunken swallow-one wild pitch shattered a grandstand chair. But the Cleveland Indians knew they had a natural. In August of that year Feller made his first official start. He fanned 15 St. Louis Browns, just one short of Rube Waddell's record for a single game...
...Russian personalities, Nehru plainly told the President that he is revolted by the personal conduct of Top Communist Nikita Khrushchev (lavishly entertained in India last year), most particularly by his drinking habits. Nehru cited instances of Khrushchev's drunken ness at diplomatic receptions. He also took exception to undiplomatic Red tirades and boastings-behavior that last month sent Western diplomats storming out of two Moscow diplomatic functions (TIME...
Truth Serum. In Pittsburgh, Motorist Francis Weiss admitted that he had downed "five or six cocktails," was acquitted of drunken driving after flabbergasted Judge Robert E. McCreary observed it was "only the second time I've heard a defendant admit to having more than a couple of beers...