Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defector plunged on, unheeding -in fact, unhearing. For the escapee was a clanking, wheezing bulldozer. Slowly it staggered forward, weaving from side to side, as if in some drunken waltz...
...nurses the hope that one of them will restore his own lost innocence. He has met such a one, and treasures a letter from her that he will reread when the awful wedding (at which his beard causes him to be mistaken for a rabbi) is finally over. After drunken humiliations in which he is literally stripped by his wife and two mistresses, he is left to sleep alone. He opens the letter that should have promised innocence. It proposes-and in the crudest way-just some more sex. There is no hope. The poet goes mad. Innocence, which Critic...
...this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
...essential to liability, it does not determine it. In addition, there must be legal or "proximate" cause, a complex mixture of fact, law and social policy. In Indiana recently, a druggist sold liquor to a teen-age boy who then rendered a child paraplegic as the result of a drunken auto accident. When the child's guardian sued the druggist, he had to establish that the liquor sale was not too remote from the accident to constitute "proximate cause." Fortunately for the plaintiff, the Indiana Supreme Court agreed, choosing not to follow decisions in several other states that rejected...
...drunken-driving suspect has enough sense to keep his mouth shut, no policeman can force him to admit how much alcohol he has under his belt. But what if the cop demands a blood sample which will offer the same information, and probably more accurately? A sample the man must give, said the Supreme Court. And then it buckled down to explaining just why a man, who has a constitutional right to silence, must deliver his own blood in testimony against himself...