Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this guy," groaned Lauri, "and you get punch-drunk...
Determined to do something about his weakness for vodka that had earned him a record of minor brushes with the law, Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits to Mike North's clients. "You can't win," he advises. "If you don't drink, you're a snob, and if you do, you're a gutter drunk...
...York City is desperately short of water, but next week it will greatly improve the supply that it has. It will add just a smidgen of fluoride-one part per million parts-to the water drunk by some 9,000,000 people who live or work in and around the city. The purpose, of course, is to improve dental health by reducing cavities. Already, 50 million other Americans in 2,848 communities get the same insurance added to their water. In addition, 7.7 million Americans drink water that has already been fluoridated by quirks of nature...
...befriended by a young homosexual. Well, that sort of squalor was one thing, but when Britain's Associated Television offered her the part of an Irish country girl who turns to drink, Tush demurely demurred. "I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally. "I have never been drunk in my life and don't expect I ever will...