Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barrow is probably the main reason for one of the area's most perplexing problems-excessive drinking. Of the 700-odd arrests made by Barrow police over the past year, almost all were related to drinking. An important police chore during night hours in Barrow is getting drunken townspeople in from the freezing cold. "They're simply bored," says Mrs. Sadie Neakok, 51, the district magistrate in Barrow. "There's nothing better to do than get drunk." Recreation is limited to basketball at the school gym, unreliable cable television, movies at the Polar Bear Theater (with special...
...most parts of the world, people have little use for alcoholic breath, but the Japanese have dreamed up a way to make it stop a car. Troubled by the steady increase in the number of drunken Japanese drivers and the traffic deaths they cause (1,200 last year), a Honda Motor Co. Ltd. engineer named Kazutaka Monden has developed a puritanical gimmick called the Sniffer that shuts off a car's engine when it detects alcoholic breath...
Before it becomes standard equipment, however, it will have to become more discriminating. It is so sensitive that even when a sober companion shifts a drunken driver to the back seat, it refuses to allow the motor to start; it can still sniff the drunk's breath. Still more embarrassing was the Sniffer's recent refusal to allow a sober woman to drive. The mechanism found her perfume intoxicating...
Harvard's hockey team coasted past an under-manned, out-of-shape St. Nick's team last night, 10-3, in an exhibition game played before bored parents and a few hard-core, drunken fans in Section...
...fathered a daughter and a son, inheritor of those "little Springer hands" that preclude championship ball control. In his first escape attempt, Rabbit sought solace with a girl nearly as melancholy as himself. But he had to return home to bury his baby daughter who drowned after a drunken Janice misplaced the child in the bathtub...