Word: drunkenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to the Holy Koran, the world will end not through fire or flood but by earthquake. "The earthquake of the Hour of Doom is a terrible thing," reads the Koran. Mothers will abandon their babies. Humankind will totter as if in a drunken stupor. There is no escape. The earth will give up its secrets. All good will be revealed. And all evil...
...knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled with such surprises, along with a profound sense of place, character and incident. Christopher Tilghman's first book announces one of the year's most significant debuts...
After 17 years underground, they pop up to the surface by the zillions, covering large areas with a crunchy carpet of five-eyed, frail-winged critters, shedding their skins, singing like drunken maniacs and mating with an abandon that renders the word orgy insufficient...
...they took off at top speed. Arriving with the siren blaring, they found a man who had cut his hand in a minor traffic accident and wanted hospital care. A county-contracted private ambulance took the case. "He'll get a bill," said Tayenaka, "but nobody pays." Later a drunken partygoer fell and cut his head slightly; he wanted an ambulance...
...Altoona, Fla., Edward Walton was a 6-ft. 1-in., 179-lb. bully who once beat his 5-ft. 10-in., 140-lb. friend Ronald Gale so badly that Gale wound up in a hospital with broken ribs. On May 7, 1989, when Walton charged at Gale in a drunken rage, the smaller man pulled out a .25-cal. pistol and shot Walton through the heart. Prosecutors charged Gale with second-degree murder, then accepted his guilty plea to manslaughter; he served 60 days...