Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walk will never be any shorter--unless you're drunk and can't tell the difference--and, barring a substantial shift of the Equator, will never be any warmer in the winter...
...Like a drunk waking up from a 20-year binge with a massive hangover, the nation is bitter, remorseful and full of resolution. The easy tolerance of the late 1960s, when turning on was a statement of personal freedom, has turned to dread. Cocaine, the glamour dust of the late '70s -- fast, clean, fun! -- has been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail...
...Like a drunk waking up from a 20- year binge with a massive hangover, America is bitter, remorseful and full of resolution. Though the drug epidemic appears to have peaked, drug abuse...
...people dead all around," recalled Ephrem Ngong Kum, 24, of Su-Bum, a village some 200 miles northwest of Yaounde, Cameroon's capital. "They died in the houses, in streets, outside the forest, in the stream." Fellow Villager Chia David Wambong remembered a warm feeling, as if he were drunk. "Everyone started to cough, and some people vomited blood," he said. "I saw people on the ground screaming. Everyone was crying." When the cloud lifted, there were few survivors to mourn the dead...
...innovations are designed to reverse a sales slump caused by the continuing U.S. trend toward sobriety. The combination of health consciousness, concern about drunk driving and the young-professional work ethic has given the alcoholic-beverage industries their toughest test since Prohibition. Total consumption of beer, wine and liquor, which climbed an average 3.3% a year during 1975-80, rose only .4% last year, according to Impact, a trade publication...