Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They would all have to come back for New Year's eve, and he was glad he had the foresight to get a date. He would have to stay out all night and get drunk; it was the part of Christmas season he always talked about most fondly and was never quite sure whether it was worthwhile...
...through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken man was twirling a revolver. He swung around, his eyes full of cunning, and threw his free arm around the neck of the man nearest to him-which happened...
...Caucasus, he congratulated himself one day on exorcising the evils of vice, especially gambling. In the next entry he recorded that "on the same day I was so carried away that I lost [850 rubles]. Now I shall restrain myself and live prudently. I went to Chervlyonnaya, got drunk there, and slept with a woman. All this is very bad and troubles me deeply...
...spot an incipient alcoholic. A drinker who 1) gulps his drinks, 2) sneaks a few on the side, 3) worries about his liquor consumption, 4) stops talking about his drinking, 5) begins to "pull blanks" (i.e., forgets what happened during his bouts) is likely to become a hopeless drunk within two years...
Parking Place. In Portland, Ore., a drunk, draped over a parking meter, was removed by police, protested: "I put in my nickel; I got 20 minutes more...