Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nils Dahlbeck, a Swedish bear expert: "They are reclaiming their former habitat. Also, they find populated areas more profitable for variety in diet." Chief victims were the Lapps who experimented for centuries with anti-bear measures. Sample: put brännvin (brandy) under juniper bushes and get the bears drunk...
Pennywise. In Portland, Ore., sidewalk orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, complained that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...
Gertrude Stein, whose expatriate thoughts at 72 have been turning homeward, had a couple about G.I.s: "You know, those G.I.s kept pinup girls all over the walls of their barracks-like religious icons. They idealized women, but, when they walked the streets of Paris, many of them would be drunk and would leer at and insult almost every woman they met. American boys are virginal, for only virgins would act that way. They liked the German women. When they made love to German women, the German women did all the work, like cows they did all the work...
...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...
Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...