Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantage obviously belongs to Maddox. All but 29 of the 259 assemblymen are Democrats, who are unlikely to give Georgia its first Republican Governor since 1872. Maddox boasted that he had assurances of at least 175 votes, said that only one legislator had refused him, "and he was drunk." Said Callaway: "I never thought that it would be easy for a Republican to become Governor of Georgia...
...passion against drink is a matter for more sobersided. chroniclers than Taylor. Some ascribe it to her grandfather's habit, back on the Kentucky homestead, of swilling brandy before the cock crowed; others to the fact that Carry's first husband, Dr. Charles Gloyd, was a professional drunk who reeled down the aisle to marry her and, in the few years left before they embalmed him, never sobered...
...following the contest, former varsity coach Rhesus J. Portfolio commented, "This is the best Harvard team I've seen in 31 years. And that day I think I was drunk...
...across the stage grow quite irritating after a while. When he plays to his mistress, Marie, he looks and acts like a little boy; with the Doctor, he seems completely unconcerned to be the victim of a deranged experimenter; with the Drum Major (when he ought to be dead drunk, incidentally, and not stone sober) his "Let's be friends" sounds like Mickey Mouse addressing Black Pete. Quite apart from the debate as to whether Woyzeck should be a clod destroyed by a wicked society or a sensitive young man destroyed by society period, this Woyzeck could not be what...
...TIME'S discourse on the growing popularity of vodka [Oct. 14] reminds me of the Air Force general who admonished his Martini-drinking Pentagon staff to lay off the stuff. "Drink whisky at lunchtime," he told them. "I'd rather have people know you're drunk than think you're stupid...