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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted, including the defense of drunken drivers. "At that time it was the garbage of the law business," Nichols recalls. His intention was to spend a couple of years at this beginner's work and then move on to more respectable projects. But today Nichols is still defending drunk drivers, a specialty that has become a thriving subdivision of the legal profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Drunk Drivers Turn to the Bar | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...winter solstice will pass practically unnoticed amid the Christmas rush. But to the homeless, the change of seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out in the Cold | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Gregory S. Markow '85 explained "It's convenient especially when you're drunk and can't walk home...

Author: By Katherink. M. Peterson, | Title: Council Suggests New Attitude May Improve Escort Service | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

Four undergraduates were hospitalized overnight on Thursday following an automobile accident. Drunk driving charges have been filed against the driver, whose car was totaled against a tree on DeWolfe St. and Memorial Drive...

Author: By Michael C.D. Okwu, | Title: Undergrads Hospitalized After Car Accident | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...stories also recall the notion that artists are doomed to live lives of extraordinary vividity. He tells of sneaking into a village autopsy and downing the bottle of brandy provided to steady the nerves of the doctor and his friends. "When it was all over, I was blind drunk and had to be carried home, to be punished not only for drunkenness but for what my father called sadism." A penchant for guns developed early; Bunuel taught himself to use his father's pistol by asking his best friend to serve as target. Despite our desire to correlate these events...

Author: By Sophie A. Volpp, | Title: No Answers | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

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