Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asdee, County Kerry, Ireland Sir: With regard to the statement that Khrushchev "seems not to have suffered for making a drunken spectacle of himself in Belgrade:" . . . The choice of Mr. Khrushchev as an "ambassador of good will" is downright Machiavellian on the part of the Politburo. Mr. K., in his cups or otherwise, talks and sounds remarkably like a human being. He invites everybody home with him; he cavorts like a Legionnaire at a department convention (but never really forgets the business at hand); he lowers his voice discreetly when he fears his remark may be a little off-color...
With a Meat Cleaver. Neighbors come and stain the good earth with their quirks and vices. The drunken O'Dowd chases his chattering wife with a meat cleaver...
Workman's Compensation. In Birmingham, after being arrested for drunken pedaling of his three-wheeled ice-cream cart. Thomas Bogan, 53, was "grounded" for 60 days by Recorder's Court Judge Oliver Hall, but charged only one-fourth of the usual fine because he was "generating his own power...
...powergrabbing, is really knowledgeable in none. A headlong, rough-house character with more drive and gusto than the others, he also has a peasant's cunning. He is gradually packing the Politburo with men of his own choosing, and seems not to have suffered for making a drunken spectacle of himself in Belgrade...
...Abdias told Jose about a night in 1949. Abdias had robbed a drunken sugar planter of 700 cruzeiros and was wisely trying to get out of the vicinity. On a muddy path through a sugar field, a stealthy figure had crept up behind Abdias, struck him over the head and robbed him. When he awoke the next day, caked with blood and mud, Abdias had crept away, not daring to report the assault because of his own crime...