Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief of the Armed Forces, Arana shared authority over the army with Defense Minister Arbenz. Feeling ran high; once the two men, both drunk, faced each other in Guatemala City's Palace Hotel bar with hot words and drawn .455, and only a friend's intervention prevented gunfire. Affable, conservative Arana stood well with the army, and was in the lead for the presidency, when in July 1949 he was decoyed into making an inspection trip that took his Mercury station wagon over a little arched bridge near Lake Ama-titlán. There he and his aide...
...Nothing remarkable!" they shouted angrily, and began to rain questions on the old man. "You have let us languish, despair, perish. Why, why? . . . You have given us sun and gladness, you have let us be drunk with the loveliness of life...
...drives his Socialist opposition into foaming rages. At lunch one day last week, Yoshida had more than his usual two Martinis. Afterward in the Diet, the sleepy-lidded Prime Minister appeared to doze. "Aha!" cried a Socialist. "We work all night on important legislation and the Prime Minister gets drunk and passes out in the Diet...
...minority race. "Negroes," she found, "have prejudices like anyone else." Puzzled but seldom hostile, Nashville whites could not understand why Mary was at Fisk instead of a white college. Once police stopped her outside her apartment in the city's Negro section. "They thought I was drunk or lost," she says. "I finally convinced them that I knew what I was doing. They were a little amazed but left me alone." Last year Mary traveled by car to New Orleans' Mardi Gras with five fellow Fisk students who asked her to stay in the car during stops...
Tynan's enthusiasms are as strong as his dislikes. Recently, after he met Greta Garbo for the first time, he wrote: "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober." Tynan sees little to respect in fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...