Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widespread efforts to round up drunken drivers, more and more motorists are being confronted by a piece of law-enforcement technology called the blood-alcohol tester. Several companies are competing to fill the demand for these devices as police departments equip their officers for tactics like spot-check roadblocks...
...groups have a stake in improving public schools. As private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
...parade, which started in the Back Bay and wound its way to Faneuil Hall and the North End, turned into a contest of banners, balloons, placards, and shouting matches. It ended in a scuffle between a drunken supporter of Flynn and Boston City Councilor Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, who had just shaken hands with Finnegan...
...After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told...
...There is no doubt that it was a regular routine car accident and there are no charges of drunken driving. If there was, they would have been made by now," a Natick police spokesman said...