Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangerous. In Salt Lake City, where there had been an alarming rise in arrests of "nice boys" as well as chronic juvenile offenders on drunk charges, police found that the youngsters were indeed horrendously drunk, but without a trace of alcohol in their systems. Glue-sniffing parties have resulted in vicious beatings. One boy was attacked by his best friend, who came at him with a broken bottle; another challenged a quartet of marines to a fight. Dr. Alan K. Done, director of the Poison Center at Salt Lake County General Hospital, sees a further-and more serious-danger...
...next morning, "I passed some minutes in a state little short of despair; I rung a bell for the purpose of ascertaining where I had got to, and other particulars. No one answered until at last a yawning man made his appearance, immediately exclaiming, 'Good God, how drunk and riotous you was, Sir! I never saw anything to equal...
...tour of war-bond rallies. Unhappily, all the attention was too much for Ira. a nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found...
...plains of Patagonia, his book is fresh, shrewd and informative. Sometimes his observations are merely amusing: "A pygmy owl with round yellow eyes that glared at me with all the silent indignation of a vicar who, in the middle of the service, has discovered that the organist is drunk." At Durrell's best, they are more; in his description, for instance, of the stoic heroism of foraging penguins, he fills the reader with his own great love for the world's wonderful beasts...
...writing this letter from the drunk tank of the county jail in Magnolia, Mississippi. Twelve of use are here, sprawled out along the concrete bunker. Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Ike Lewis, and Robert Talbert, four veterans of the bunker, are sitting up talking--mostly about girls. (Charles) McDew...is curled into the concrete and the wall; Harold Robinson, Stephen Ashley, James Wells, Lee Chester Vick, Leetus Eubanks, and Ivery Diggs lay cramped on the cold bunker; I'm sitting with smuggled pen and paper, thinking a little, writing a little; Myrits Bennett and Janie Campbell are across the way wedded...