Word: drunkness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joined an eating club that is kind of notorious for rambunctiousness and was eventually arrested for drunk driving. He graduated this year but without academic honors. Now Harrison's youngest brother was just admitted to Princeton. He's entering in the fall. And he wasn't in the Cum Laude Society at St. Albans either. [The Frist family declined to comment...
...anyone who has drunk seriously with Japanese, Indian, South Korean or Taiwanese executives can aver, whisky doesn't merely enjoy a healthy market across large swathes of Asia - it boasts armies[an error occurred while processing this directive] of well-informed connoisseurs. Head south, however, and aficionados are thinner on the ground. The Islamic countries of Malaysia and Indonesia are hardly big-drinking nations (and when they do imbibe, the preferred drinks tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different...
...even when heavenly flavors don’t make it to my dinner table, I enjoy my nightly glass of wine. Drinking wine isn’t about getting drunk or anything else you happen to be doing at the time. The flavors are so various and so unlike any other food or beverage you can consume that it demands your full attention. The pleasure of drinking wine stems from identifying these flavors, savoring them in unique combinations, and doing so with a group of like-minded friends...
...nearly all their wages. There are families here whose kids are not going to school. We have to sort this out." Borroloola Council ceo Jeff Colver agrees. "When the [Federal government] baby-bonus payments came through recently," he says, "there was a massive stream of people wandering around clearly drunk, carting cartons of alcohol." Police Superintendent Ian Lea, the local area commander, is also worried. In the Borroloola area, he says, "alcohol-related violence fuels long-running disputes, particularly in the indigenous community...
...Staff at the health clinic, and many other residents, say the town's only hotel, the Borroloola Inn, feeds the mayhem by serving people who are obviously drunk. The operators say the unfair accusations have driven them to put the pub up for sale. "The hotel in any Aboriginal community is probably looked on as a monster," says Christopher Taylor, the licensee's husband. To limit the risk of problems, he says, closing time on Sundays has been brought forward...