Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received an extraordinary outpouring of support and sympathy. His office reported that 98% of the initial calls and letters were favorable.* That flood was doubtless enhanced by Columnist Jack Anderson's public apology and retraction of charges he had made that Eagleton had a history of arrests for drunken driving...
...came the Jack Anderson morning. That would be Thursday. I had left a call for 6:15. I wanted to swim. At 6:15 one of my guys comes in and says, "Well, you won't believe this, but Jack Anderson says, eleven times arrested, six times for drunken driving." I said, "Bull shit, it's a goddam...
...Josie--Salome Jens.) Yet she interprets her role with the same sensitivity as her fellow actors construe theirs, and she is able to build a powerful and subtle tension with Currier in the scenes in which her genuine love for him is frustrated by his need to confess his drunken lascivious behavior at the time of his mother's death...
...addition, Congress should pass a law that would at long last crack down on drunken drivers, who get away with long last crack down on drunken drivers, who get away with murder. Half of all fatal accidents involve drivers who have been drinking. The U.S. would be wise to emulate the Scandinavian countries. In Sweden, police routinely stop drivers and test suspected drinkers. Anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood (about one cocktail or two strong beers for a 165-lb. person) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail, usually at hard labor. That...
...their own people. But in the context of the novel, the crucifixion of Pedro's brother, Salvador, who is already a very sick man, seems a natural act of piety. And though afterwards Cuscat realizes that to the Dominicans his people dancing in frantic circles are only blasphemous drunken Indians, to him, their leader, they are "drowning people going toward a core which doesn't even have a name, certainly it is not called any god's name, just the place where everything comes from, life and death...