Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor in getting any living creature drunk whether it be an adult, a child or an animal. Killing a goat with alcohol [Sept. 6] is poor entertainment. Why not shoot him instead...
...medicine to a full figure corset almost escape our conscious notice. A Bloodsmoor Romance, although packed with laughs and adventure cannot be read quickly and its prodigious length barely serves to tie up all the loose ends. Not many apparently light contemporary novels leave the reader feeling so punch drunk...
Groups such as MADD and Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD)--a high school group begun in Massachusetts--have started to spread educational programs. SADD members sign contracts with their parents about calling home for drives--no questions asked. But there are only so many people these small groups can hope to reach...
Carol Lawler's 15-year-old son was one of the 250,000 people killed during the past 10 years in a drunk driving accident. A drunk driver careened off the road and crushed him as he stood with his family on the lawn of a restaurant. But since the new laws weren't in effect, the man--a repeat offender--received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence and is now eligible for parole after serving only two years. His three drunk passengers walked away from the accident scot-free...
People like Lawler aren't out for personal revenge. All they want to do is to make sure the lives of their children--or themselves--won't be ruined by a drunk driver. So far, though, it seems that the only people who care are the ones whose lives have already been marred by such a tragedy...