Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only resigned as Democratic secretary of the Senate, but refused for the first time in his busy, brief life to talk with reporters. Wild rumors sped around Capitol Hill that this was only the beginning of the story about Bobby Baker, the young fellow who knew who was drunk, who was out of town, and who was sleeping with whom. At week's end, and at the insistence of Delaware's Republican Senator John Williams, the Senate reluctantly authorized its Rules Committee to start hearings into the activities of Bobby Gene Baker...
Brendan Behan, the often-drunk Irish playwright, thinks most people are fools. In The Hostage, he tries to prove his point by mocking both the characters and the audience...
...survey put together by the Center of Alcohol Studies at New Jersey's Rutgers University, the average adult resident of Washington gulped, sipped or chugalugged 8.77 gallons of hard liquor last year. No state even came close to that record. The 1962 rankings by state of gallons* drunk per adult (defined as 15 years and over...
...goat's bladders, your problem is pretty well insoluble. In a collection of 50 sketches, which add up to a zany autobiography, Carson has told just how he defied the odds and beat civilization's big rap-the steady job-and still managed to eat, travel, get drunk and make love...
Iced Tea & Bourbon. Bill's drinking was such common gossip in Oxford that when he tried to organize a Boy Scout troop one winter he was denounced as unfit by the minister of the Baptist Church. But most of his drunks, says Brother John, were just play acting. He would go for weeks without taking a drink and then a call would come from his wife Estelle that it was time to come and "sober Billie up." That job usually fell to Mother Faulkner, a tiny, fiercely energetic woman who understood Billie's desire to be waited...