Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be a gradual reduction, probably by two-thirds, of the permanent military force of 6,000-including 1,500 crew-cut (and mostly German) members of the 13th Demibrigade of the famed Foreign Legion. Shopkeepers in Menelik Square hope the legionnaires will stay on. "They raise hell in drunken brawls and bust up a bar now and then," says one, "but at least they spend what they make here. Most of it is for drinking or whoring, but they spend it." One scar-faced Legion major seems willing enough. He shrugs and says, "The booze and the broads...
...growth had its negative impact, and in the unstable atmosphere of post-Franco politics, the Spanish economy has been left largely to its own long-deteriorating devices. "We have been living a drunken fiesta of reform and democracy, and the economy has been forgotten," complains one leading businessman. "When the election is finally over we are going to wake up with a monumental hangover...
...located on Bow St. next to the cleaner's, is a raunchy, sticky-floored hole designed for people who want to get loaded as fast and as cheaply as possible. If you don't mind being proofed at the door, and fighting your way through a forest of sweaty, drunken bodies to a sticky table where you can drink, listen to blaring bad jukebox music and look at posters advertising specials on the walls, you'll like Father...
Quincy House residents petitioned the Cambridge post office for the return of a mailbox on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts., but the post office said it was an unlikely prospect because drunken students kept moving the mailbox, confusing mailmen when they came to empty...
...have to live with that smelly thing for the rest of my life." In a characteristic gesture, he appoints his current mistress as Caroline's lady of the bedchamber. For her part, Caroline quickly takes the cut of the prince's jib and calls him a "slobbering, drunken, effeminate...