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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father is drunk again, like always, he sat in front of me. He's losing his eyesight with the alcohol. I saw his eyes, all red. He said he couldn't see very well during the day, I almost cried. I wish I wouldn't live with a person like that. Every day for years he always came home drunk, making me hate him. I know he'll soon die and that makes me cry. He gives up on life, he doesn't look for solutions. I remember when I was small he used to hug me. Things are getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...boxer and laughs. "I didn't have no bed of roses. I came from a broken home. So what? I don't go for blaming everyone else for what you do wrong. Here's a kick: I was even a virgin the day after I got married. I got drunk at the wedding--nice Italian wedding--and went home and fell asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...everything. I know he's going to mess up Christmas again. Year before last, we were driving to our cousins in the Bronx. It was raining, and he gets in a fight with another driver. Last Christmas the same. We were in the car, and he's driving drunk, putting us in danger. And he starts fighting with my big sister, who can't take it. She keeps her unhappiness inside. She ; tried to kill herself one time by swallowing all my grandmother's asthma pills. My other sister tried to kill herself too. They had to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: Spitting with Intent to Kill | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Spielberg went to outer space. Spielberg went to Egypt. Spielberg went to suburbia. Now, drunk with success and hubris, Spielberg has imposed his high-tech humanity on the myths of another age. The Sherlock Holmes stories, the embodiment of understated, subtle Victorian British refinement, come at us with all the sophistication of an Indiana Jones bullwhip in Young Sherlock Holmes, which is guaranteed to hit the jackpot this Christmas season...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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