Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entries multiply, both Keene and the people around him assume increasingly interesting shapes. He sets up a still to tide himself over the first year of farming and is soon selling 80 proof corn whisky at 32 cents a gallon. He is one of his own best customers. "Drunk" becomes a steady, solitary refrain during the fall and winter. He also struggles with carnal desires. He reads and translates erotic passages from Juvenal. When these sessions succeed, he writes: Masturbatus sum. Shortly after he arrives, he develops a crush on Fanny Cooper, the daughter-in-law of the local Methodist...
Retired people should not be exempt from this legislation, either. They have shuffleboard and Miami; they should be happy with that. What can they do when they're drunk, anyway...
Something ought to be done to keep Capitol Hill dry. Perhaps signs saying "Friends don't let friends vote drunk", or "If a friend's been drinking, vote for him by proxy" might be in order...
...People are too drunk to stay in the store long enough to buy anything," said John Pinkney, manager of Boston Compact Discs...
...monitors were inspired by a 1977 Spiderman cartoon and introduced in New Mexico six years later. Now the contraptions are catching on. Oregon's Linn County is using ankle transmitters to enforce curfew restrictions on repeat drunk-driving offenders. Kenton County, Ky., employs the devices to monitor fathers under house arrest for not paying child support. Lake County, Ill., has ordered $51,350 worth of equipment in an effort to cut prison costs and relieve overcrowding...