Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton in 1928, just two years after the publication of The Great Gatsby. It was a time of great riches and revelry everywhere, but if any college was the spiritual stomach of the Twenties it was Fitzgerald's Princeton, where almost everyone would be drunk for a week at a time. As Red says, "People at that time were not very interested in religion." A proof of this is the fact that not one member of his class graduated with the intention of entering a seminary, although a number later found their way to the ranks of the ministry...
Khrushchev was not drunk. Nor was there anything ebullient or exuberantly extrovert about his outbursts. His fury carried the same impression of cold steel as his handshake. What Mr. Khrushchev cannot stand is criticism or opposition of any kind. One man in a crowd shaking a fist at him was enough to provoke in Birmingham a tirade which must have revived for most people memories of Hitler's speeches before...
Nights and days run together. The Russians and the Americans meet at the Elbe. Hitler shuffles paper armies, daydreams in helpless fury of destroying the world. A moment later, the six Goebbels children are romping about their Onkel Adolf like pretty puppies. The young captain gets drunk and shoots off his mouth. Himmler offers peace without Hitler's consent. Eva's brother-in-law is shot, on Hitler's orders, as a deserter; and on Hitler's orders a Berlin subway, full of German women and children, is flooded to keep the Russians...
...Portrait. In Great Bend, Kans., Donley Hurd published a notice in the daily Tribune: "You are hereby notified that you shall cash no checks supposed to be signed by me because I never have any money in the bank and never give any checks unless I'm too drunk to know what I'm doing...
...order to be free to work out their quarrels in peace at home. First Khrushchev and Mikoyan went to Red China to insure Mao's friendship with promises of new industrial supplies. Then they ate crow at the lean table of the renegade Tito, where Nikita stayed drunk most of the time. After that came the parley at the summit, which they bought into cheaply by freeing Austria. But for all the sweet talk at Geneva, the Russians were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree...