Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normally again. At a certain stage in his drinking career, a drinker passes his tolerance point -that is, he passes from a condition in which he can tolerate alcohol to a condition in which he absolutely cannot tolerate it. After that, one drink will start him off on a drunk. However, his alcoholism can be arrested ... so that an alcoholic can live a life of sobriety and like...
...Russians who had been fighting Germans and Rumanians from Bessarabia to Stalingrad and back again. They came to a country rich in everything they had done without for more than three years. They came with only the barest minimum of supplies. They started requisitioning. Some started looting. Some got drunk and started taking women. For a while the Red Army went on something like a spree...
...said . . . but I knew that it was the end. . . . We placed pennies on his eyes, and later they were replaced with silver coins by a friend of the young poet. . . . That I, or any woman who was in the house, took the coins and went off to get drunk at the nearest bar . . . I am sure is not the case...
...almost three years. It hasn't been easy and, although we are making great strides toward victory, there are still some terrible battles to be fought in which thousands of young American boys will fall. Why ? So the nation can have parades and celebrations, blow whistles and get drunk after just one foe has fallen...
...Swedes, to Danes, were models of drunkenness. "Full som Svensker" "Drunk as a Swede," is the Danish phrase...