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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ring disagreed with Bornstein on the effect of the renovations. "It's not the decor of the bar room that starts fights; it's the alcohol. When young people get drunk, they can get very nasty...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Father's Facelift | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...early scenario was this: Sue Ellen decides to kill herself by dissolving sleeping pills in a glass of water. As she heads to the baby's room to say goodbye to her son, J.R. comes in drunk and gulps down the water. Sue Ellen sees this but does not stop him. She just goes in and rocks the baby. "It was interesting, but it wasn't as stylish as establishing five or six suspects," says Capice. "It didn't afford us an opportunity to bring four or five story story lines together. The shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...Billy voluntarily entered an alcoholic rehabilitation center in Long Beach, Calif., emerging seven weeks later as an avowed teetotaler. (Asked last week if he had merely undergone treatment to avoid the investigation, Billy firmly denied it, adding with a smile: "Baby, I was about as big a drunk as you want to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...when Lyndon Johnson inherited the Oval Office late in 1963, he brought with him Sam Houston Johnson, a sharp-witted drunk with a predilection for the fast life. "I guess Lyndon wanted me close by so that he could keep a big-brotherly eye on all my extra-curricular activities," Sam wrote in his 1969 book, My Brother Lyndon...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Than Kin, Less Than Kind | 7/29/1980 | See Source »

Billy argues that he needed the Libyan money because he could not obtain loans elsewhere and was running short of funds. "I've spent all my time the past year in the drunk tank or the grand jury," he said, referring to an earlier, seven-month investigation into the tangled finances of the family peanut warehousing business that found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To the Shoals off Tripoli | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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