Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Honorable mention went to a Cornell fraternity and a mass of drunken freshmen, all of whom provided the entertainment in between plays...
...Joseph illness" is peculiarly unpleasant. It usually starts with a loss of coordination, a drunken, staggering gait, and gradual slurring of speech. It ends, generally 20 years after its onset, in death, usually from pneumonia brought on by a gradual paralysis of the muscles involved in breathing...
...kept cursing me and said he was going to whip my ass," asserted South Carolina Patrolman J.R. Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars...
Coming home, late at night, they stumble on a dead man in whose wallet is a bewysboek with a permit to work in Port Elizabeth. This is Sizwe's chance--in drunken self-righteousness and rebellion, he at first refuses to steal the bewysboek and take on the dead man's identity, because for a black man in South Africa, his name is all that he has, the last proof of his manhood. But he finally relents, and Sizwe Banzi is dead...
...troopers to install CB units at their own expense in September 1974. In the following six months, CB-equipped state patrol cars logged 667 calls from private drivers, not including requests for road conditions and directions. The calls resulted in 221 arrests, most of them for such offenses as drunken driving and speeding; among those nabbed were 21 wanted criminals...