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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colorado requires local police to file state reports on all drunken drivers. To avoid that technicality, Greenwood's cops allegedly ordered motorists to get out of their cars, then charged them with being "drunk in a public place," a tactic yielding fines of up to $300 without the state's being the wiser. Couples found necking or simply talking in parked cars were also ticketed for being "nude above the waist" or "nude below the waist"-noncrimes that earned speedy payoffs from embarrassed victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic Court: Losers on the Road | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...many places it was not clear whether you were describing Lampoon members or the crowd which gathered. I cannot speak for the crowd but no Lampoon member was drunk. For what it's worth only one had an impeccably dressed date, and none has a credo which allows no room for commitment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPOON REPLITS | 4/21/1965 | See Source »

...other signs read "On to Hanoi" and urged bombing of the North Vietnamese capitol. Before long, the counter-demonstrators and their impeccably dressed dates were marching around chanting "War! War! War!" and "On to Moscow!" Many were drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Counter-Demonstrations | 4/19/1965 | See Source »

...actor who misses his first laugh is likely to strain for the next--which is sure failure. Only a quarter of the Loeb's seats were filled for the opening of Eastward Ho, and the audience didn't warm up until the second act. With a bigger audience, a drunk or excited or happy one, the current production might be wonderful Last night it was flat...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Eastward Ho | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Come, I say next, how can you take Norman seriously? This man who declared himself a candidate for Mayor of New York, then stabbed his wife in the stomach? Who claimed credit for Kennedy's election? Who hollered drunk insults at Sonny Liston and was carried from the press conference? How can you take this man seriously? It's so unfashionable...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

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