Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline: THE ROYAL WEE). That led to a protest from Prince Charles and Princess Diana and to the subsequent firing of editor Wendy Henry by the publisher, Robert Maxwell. Earlier in the year, the editor of the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) apologized in print for a story alleging that drunken Liverpool soccer fans had "viciously attacked" rescue workers after 95 fans were crushed to death at a crowded soccer stadium in Sheffield. The wildly exaggerated story spurred a boycott of the paper in Liverpool. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was already reeling from a $1.8 million out-of-court...
Perhaps because he thought his father killed himself, suicide always hung like a shadow over Berryman's life, Simpson writes. She recalls an incident after a drunken prenuptial party in New York when Berryman fought with his mother and then leapt onto the narrow railing of her apartment terrace many stories above the city streets...
Health class, Harvey Milk School: a male student in drag is talking about his last experience with alcohol. "A drunken butch queen was getting on my case, criticizing me and acting flamboyant, so I pulled a knife on her." A gay youth interjects, "If you consider yourself a woman, you should act like a woman 24 hours a day." So the boy in drag appeals to the only avowed straight girl in the school: "In this situation, are you going to use your knife or not?" She says, "You best believe I'll be using my knife...
There has to be some explanation for the Crimson's collapse after the first period. Did some Yalie prankster tie Harvard's skates together? Was there a sudden outbreak of tuberculosis in the locker room? Did a drunken Zamboni driver miss a spot...
...World Series, of course, was the pinnacleof my spectatorial career. Mookie hit The GroundBall, Buckner misplayed it into the history books,Jesse O threw his mitt on to the front page ofevery New York tabloid and the Mets piled on tothe mound for a drunken champagne celebration thatlasted hours...