Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moistened, the mouth rinsed with sea water, but "there is no doubt that large draughts of sea water cause death and even small amounts may prejudice a man's chance of survival on a long voyage. . . . The liquid contained in the lifeboat's compass should never be drunk: it is poisonous...
...client was pronounced dead and Jimmy collected his fee, $100. The aftermath: next day Jimmy was picked up on a drunk-and-disorderly charge. He posted a $10 bond, which he forfeited. His drunks usually follow each service to a client and Jimmy laments the fact that he almost never gets more than $90 cash out of a visit because of the bonds he forfeits...
...night two of them, William Stewart and Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...shopping, for tea, for almost anything that seems important to a woman at the moment-though women with close relatives in the services are apt to be among the most regular workers there are. Boys take time off for hang overs, have lately taken to writing blatant cracks like "drunk too much" or "date with a blonde" on their why-were-you-absent slips. U.S. factory morale and discipline seems to be at a very low pitch...
...down on her side until her masts dipped into the sea. The two men on her deck grabbed lifelines and hung on. The 3070 righted herself, rolled over the other way. Her mizzenmast carried away with a crash. The 3070 floundered on across the whooping Atlantic like a drunk on a merry-go-round...