Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other newspapers preferred to run stories that listed the criminal backgrounds of AIM leaders Russell C. Means and Dennis J. Banks, and took particular delight in reporting drunken driving charges. The stories, however, neglected to mention that Indians often are arrested even though they have done nothing wrong...
...food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...
...larger, could be relied upon to smack his brother, Dave, younger and smaller, around numerous stages in equally numerous dank halls across America. No more. Ray has coupled his social insights with his instinctive love of vaudeville as it appeared in English music halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken semi-pro Long Island lounge band. The Kinks have become my favorite band since last November when I first saw them in concert. Davies' manifestation of his music hall persona is the key to Everybody's in Show-Biz, and has become...
Despite the tragedies of war and death, laughter and the mean and drunken energies of life go on. While a British warship is shelling this Dublin slum, O'Casey's characters are out looting the shops, trying on fancy hats, trundling pianos down the streets and pulling big double beds out of broken shop windows. O'Casey's turbulent canvas of humanity makes him almost a Brueghel among playwrights...
...Paul's struck the threequarters. Corey took his hat and put his hand on the door. He was a little drunken with fatigue...