Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grandfather, a U.S. Senator, from Washington to Knoxville. Aubrey was not welcome aboard, and the Tucker sisters, now young matrons, are particularly appalled by his efforts to join the funeral party. The journey is one of Taylor's best comic set pieces, a deadpan account of how the drunken antics of the male mourners caused a series of unseemly disasters...
Poppy brings the house down when she is finally pushed over the edge at the end of the second act. Tim has his moment in the limelight when, called upon to understudy the drunken Selsdon, he finds himself one ofthreeburglars center stage reciting Selsdon's lines...
...have come at a worse time for the California wine trade, whose annual sales exceed $3.6 billion. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates the wineries, appears to be following a neo-prohibitionist agenda. The bureau requires wine labels to carry warnings about drunken driving and the danger of alcohol to pregnant women. At the same time, the bureau refuses to allow vintners to promote or advertise research indicating that drinking wine in moderation has some health benefits...
When a friend of Cooper's tore down the message board, "it wasn't a politically motivated incident, it was just drunken stupidity," Cooper says. But she says Wasinger interpreted the act as politically motivated and went to the proctor to complain...
...February 23, amidst throngs of loud, drunken fans at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, Harvard's squash team, undefeated in its nine regular season matches of the season, found itself on the brink of defeat in the national championship match against undefeated arch-rival Yale...