Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drunk and the Courthouse. When Johnson gets excuses about why something cannot be done, he often tells of "a fellow down in Blanco County who wanted to find the courthouse. He asked the town drunk, who lurched up to the car and began to give directions. 'You go down to the creek, take the first right past the bridge, then go left-no, you can't get to the courthouse that way.' He tried again. 'Let's see, you go on up to the top of the hill, turn left at the cedar grove...
Kerouac was drunk, but quite coherent. As students pulled the screens off the windows to get in, he traded gibes with Desmond O'Grady, the Irish poet of Adams House, and suggested that O'Grady should give the reading himself...
...Robert Kerr and longtime Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Baker made it his unending business to know things-and what he didn't know about the Senate and its members probably was not worth the trouble. He knew who was against what bill and why. He knew who was drunk. He knew who was out of town. He knew who was sleeping with whom. He influenced committee assignments. He influenced legislation. He came to be known as "the 101st Senator." And he indulged in some vast moonlighting schemes that helped him parlay his $19,612-a-year Government salary into...
...saints of modern fiction are not the God-drunk but the nonbelievers- men racked with doubt but cursed with the will to survive. They find their strength not in faith but in despair, their heroism in acknowledging the prospect of their own extinction...
...when old King George III was too dotty to rule outright and his son, the Prince Regent, had not yet acceded to the title as George IV. What the butler means, obviously, is that his Lordship, while putting away a lot of the stuff, has been seldom if ever drunk...