Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle. In August, three other members were killed in a shooting match with Los Angeles police. Shortly after Newton was convicted, two Oakland policemen drove a patrol car past the Panthers' local headquarters and riddled the front window with bullets. The men, on duty but obviously drunk, were immediately suspended from the force and charged with a felony...
...performance. Entwistle grim and impassive. Moon, mouth open looking happily about. Townshend concentrates hard but is not afraid to jerk and shudder with his arms and legs when he feels the will of the music. Daltrey convulsing. Townshend splits his guitar with one axe blow. Moon when drunk, as tonight personally supervises the destruction of his drums. Why do they...
...waist to match. Upstairs, her invalid mother sits clutching the bedclothes about her like a winding sheet, praying fanatically to St. Philomena, ringing a huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs into bed with his mother-in-law. Alas, the old lady soon finds a surrogate saint, the daughter is shocked...
...favorable to the plaintiff, disregard all evidence to the contrary, and decide that even under those circumstances, no reasonable man could find for the plaintiff. Even if the dispute is so onesided that it amounts to "the word of a busload of bishops against the word of the town drunk," says Harvard Law Professor Richard Field, the question must go to a jury...
...debauched Christian, Spintho, Richard Mathews does carry a wine pouch, but makes the character much too hale and hearty. He is supposed to have "gone helplessly to the bad," and complains, "I'm full of disease. I've drunk all my nerves away," but our eyes tell us that it just...