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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt the heady spirit of Dr. Chafetz' book will be misrepresented and abused. But he puts himself squarely on record: "The person who drinks to get drunk is a fool and probably does not enjoy liquor anyway. He likely drinks for oblivion, with alcohol only the means to attain it." The civilized drinker stops far short of drunken oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Good for You | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Referee Jersey Joe Walcott waited several seconds before starting the countdown--perhaps Clay's punch was so undiscernible that he thought Liston had slipped on a banana peel, or maybe Old Jersey Joe is still a little punch-drunk from the Marciano fight. At any rate, Liston was required to stay down for an eight count. He got up before he was counted out--and naturally he would wait till the last second to conserve his strength...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: It Must Have Been the Will of Allah | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

...drunk as a skunk," says the preacher, leering just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wags Out West | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Wartime Leader | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...kind of erotic robber bar On, Baal squeezes the juices of life, love and lust out of other men's wives, friends' mistresses and such virgins as the one played by Flora Elkins- and then casts them aside with savage contempt. He is always raving drunk and ravenously sex-hungry, at one point taking two sisters to bed at the same time. Between these bouts of insane carnality, he cheats, lies, steals, and spouts some embarrassingly inflated rhetoric at the sun, trees, sea and sky. The only being he seems to care for is a homosexual composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eros Degraded | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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