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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were strains and irritations in their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Liquor & Lipstick | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

What the Golden Fleece really was-a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was, the voyage of Jason and his Argonauts really happened. His story of "how it really happened" shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Golden Fleece | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...will stop raining tomorrow, for the World Series begins and all the writing talent of the College will wish to dock to the opening of the SERVICE NEWS fall competition without getting wet Beer, in addition, should not be drunk in wet weather, for the Med School students claim it brings ulcers. And ulcers keep you from drinking beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON-SERVICE NEWS COMP GETS UNDER WAY TOMORROW | 10/2/1945 | See Source »

...donors were not identified. One had sent a final $50 check on V-J day-"I thought this would be better than going out and getting drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: From a Well- Wisher | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...spectacle of American pie throwing, egg smashing slapstick filled his hungry body with loathing. On the street, he found the "drunk, amorous" American tourist "strutting haughtily" with the "insufferable arrogance [of] a master race." "This we can never forgive or forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return to Sparta | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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