Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk local peace officers had persuaded some of the white men to go home and had jailed two who were drunk and particularly loud. But in blacked-out Mink Slide the rumors still hummed behind closed doors: the white men were coming...
...into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
...Revolution came sooner and was won more easily than anybody expected. Before hay harvest, Farmer Jones got drunk for two days. Nobody milked the cows or fed the animals. At last the frenzied creatures broke into the feed room. When Jones and his men arrived with whips, the animals turned on them and chased them off the farm...
There are other more understandable but equally inexplicable anomalies: how some marines (especially officers) spend so much time investigating the licentious pleasures of the cities; how other marines sometimes kill and maim Chinese by reckless driving, or in deliberate mayhem and murder committed while drunk...
Then the Russians from Tass agency weighed in: Did the General know about the outrages committed by U.S. troops against the Soviet Union? (Two G.I.s reportedly beat up a Russian; another drunk yanked a Soviet flag off a store display.) Didn't he think such acts were caused by vicious anti-Soviet propaganda...