Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat parliament, the air was filled with the crackle of machine guns and the dull thud of exploding grenades. At the Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger-happy troops would have done if they had been angered by the results of Uganda's first election in 18 years...
...Little Australia, a section of Taipei near the Ambassador Hotel where Australian businessmen go to drink, carouse, hire prostitutes. The bars have names like Victoria Pub. The Ploughman, the Waltzing Matilda. Alex, who is New York Chinese, looks around us at the beaming, red faces of drunken Australians and observes that there is nothing in the whole goddamn place that's written in Chinese. We decide we have to do something very Taiwanese the next day. We take a bus to White Sand Bay, one of two sandy beaches on the island...
Saturday's Game erupted in short spurts, exciting plays sprinkled through a generally thick flow of action. As the wind whipped the partisans into a chilly, drunken numbness, attention wandered away from the field. The television commercial breaks didn't help the spectators stay comfortable, but the revenue will doubtless sweeten...
...black federal soldiers and the townspeople, many of them ex-Confederates, lived in a certain mutual contempt. After a drunken sheepman blew out an unarmed trooper's brains in a saloon one night in 1881, the black soldiers came raging across the river into town and posted a notice: "If we do not receive justice and fair play, which we must have, some one will suffer-if not the guilty, the innocent. It has gone far enough. Justice or death." It was a moment of brave anger in the 19th century, but it passed; the white sheepman was acquitted...
...ARBOR, Mich.--The president of the University of Michigan, Harold Shapiro, this week issued a statement censoring the varsity hockey team for allegedly abandoning a naked, drunken freshman outside in near-freezing weather during a hazing incident...