Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steeple Chaser. In Taunton, England, after John Tempeman scaled a 180-ft. church spire, police who removed him found that he was so drunk he could not stand up without help...
First Symptoms. These show up as early as two years after social drinking begins, form a syndrome that lasts about 12.5 years. The potential alcoholic first takes to sneaking drinks and downing doubles or triples while others are still at the one-drink stage. Soon he gets drunk whenever he drinks, even against his wishes. Next he thinks often about drinking, its balm to life's stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient...
...patient becomes a liquor hoarder, buys large quantities, worries whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny...
Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...
...would be foolish to try to summarize the feelings that Fidel Castro left behind him on his visit and speech here. His personal magnetism and idealism--whether or not one thinks they were inspiring--are the rare and precious gift of a national figure. And if he is "drunk" with anything, it is popularity, not power...