Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year later he was in Alaska. "I heard him when he first came up the Yukon on a boat in the summer of 1935," says Eskimo Trader John Elachik. "He was singing La Paloma so loud we could hear him way up the river. We thought he was drunk...
...every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified barbed-wire fence, 'cause last night some drunk ran slap into it and fused the whole works. That's where Mr. Faulkner lives...
...tiresome because it has to be performed according to a long established ritual, with initialed napkin rings, embroidered table mats, forks of different shapes and sizes and a bell push under the table. It is a game we have agreed to play ... until the coffee. But the coffee once drunk, down the back stairs into the pantry and the best of luck...
Burei. The keynote is burei (no manners). While employees in the U.S. may get drunk at office parties and tell the boss off, employees in Japan are virtually required to; that is considered an improvement on the hit-or-miss American tradition. Afterward, everyone politely forgets all that happened...
...popular theory that "punch-drunkenness" is the result of repeated head blows during a boxing career Reporting on a ten-year study of 3000 electroencephalograms (recordings of the brain's electric currents) taken on boxers Dr. Kaplan found no relationship between boxing and degenerative brain disease. The "punch-drunk" ex-pug he concluded, probably would have suffered the same fate had he never boxed...