Word: drunkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than in the days when there wasn't enough money to do anything. Both sides have a long habit of spending money now that won't arrive until later, and promising that they'll cut something without saying exactly what. The fear is that Congress will get too drunk on prosperity to drive the budget home safely--and that's why conservatives aren't so keen about the party in the first place...
...overreacted. When the Cedar Rapids Kernels offered to let me throw out a first pitch, I shouldn't have run by the editors' offices yelling "I bet your precious Calvin Trillin has never thrown out a first pitch!" I called my new favorite minor-league team immediately and accepted, drunk on my own power and assuming Cedar Rapids wasn't really far away. It is. From anywhere...
Watching the tape of me simultaneously trying to impress MTV producers and score with a shorn woman was the second most embarrassing moment of my life. The first, according to my application, was getting drunk in high school and badmouthing the sexual talents of my already graduated girlfriend, a claim that was posted on the school message board the next day. Her most embarrassing moment, of course, is happening right...
...nearly 10 million Americans were arrested, up more than 8% from four years earlier. Most of them need publicly provided attorneys. But what if their lawyers sleep through witness testimony, show up drunk for trial or miss crucial filing deadlines? What if they can't afford forensics tests or, as in the case of Roberto Miranda's lawyer in Nevada, fail to investigate their cases aggressively? Miranda was freed in 1996 from death row after 14 years when a judge found that a key witness had not been interviewed...
...Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. 2. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 3. A verb: He was ad-boarded for getting really drunk and his pushing his proctor out of a fifth-floor window...