Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copious snacks, Candy and Sandy adjust the two movie screens and tend the stereo. There are occasional misunderstandings. As Sandy puts it delicately, "At first some people thought we came with the day rate. But all in all, the guys in the rock groups are better to serve than drunken businessmen...
...such moments Hasek's good soldier seems like the martyr in his drunken chaplain's painting...
...people of the C.A.R. know the importance of devotion and obedience: the hallmark of Bokassa's reign is arbitrary and unpredictable terror. Government officials are frequently summoned at a moment's notice to the presidential palace. If Bokassa is angry, they can expect anything from a drunken tirade to a personally administered presidential beating to instant imprisonment. Even harsher treatment has been meted out to the President's political opponents, real or imagined. Michel Mounomboye, security chief at the time of Bokassa's takeover, had his eyes torn out in front of his family before being...
...neared the end of the block, I saw my three drunken friends no more than ten yards from me. I smiled at them, but as they came up to me, the man who was closest, the one with the pilot's cap on his head, reached out and quickly goosed me. I was so outraged that by the time I could get my Spanish straight enough to curse him, the three were several yards past me, laughing uproariously as the flying ace was congratulated by the other two, as if he had just shot down the Red Baron...
...agency because of its actions brings about a premature death, I don't think it is fair to charge a person with manslaughter." The municipal judge agreed. "There is really no way of knowing whether this defendant caused the death of this individual," he ruled, leaving only the drunken-driving charge pending...