Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contradictions of a bar with a pinball machine which warns against drunk driving will no doubt spin quite a few heads. But don't worry, you will be only a few minutes walk away from the Yard and the Houses...
...play a trick on Daddy, but Daddy won't play. He returns home and, finding no one about, simply sits down to watch a football game on TV. Here and elsewhere, he is like an inconveniently placed piece of furniture. Yet he is not without a saving gracelessness. Drunk at a dinner party, he puts his head on his place mat and groans, "This is so boring...
...knew I was either going to break down and cry, get dangerously drunk, or commit homicide if I went back to Weld that night. So I called my best friend, Mark, and got on the Green Line to go see him for the night. Just being back in my suburban hometown, I knew, would make it easier to deal with...
...fact,my Chinese probably isn't too much better thanyours." What hasn't been explained to me iscrossing Mt. Auburn street to the strains fromtownies' cars of "Ch'ing ch'ong (sp.?) sianara(sp.?)" amplified and distorted by the Dopplereffect. More frightening was being accosted lateone night by very drunk and white Harvard men with"Hey China girl, let's see what's in yoursleeves." Ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. "What makes youthink you're any better than me?" my mind screams,as my silent Asian face burns red, turned down tothe ground. Things haven't changed so much sincegrade...
While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...