Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They seem to have no worry whether I can safely drive at all, let alone find my way home, home, in the dark, having drunk as much as this .. . The passport, I had noticed, was growing smaller, over the years, and changing fabric ... A case nominally begins with an injury, for which there exists in the law a kind of remedy, usually financial, but sometimes having to do, rather more brutally, with divorce, separation, incarceration, custody...
Grenada has been more quiet than serene for the past couple of weeks, like a drunk sobering up after a bender. A kind of national hangover would be understandable: the tiny country has just endured four years of supercharged socialist revolution, a week of political chaos, a U.S. invasion, then a few giddy days simply feeling liberated. But what happens next is uncertain, and Grenadians and the American invaders both seem to be getting cranky. Military occupation, no matter how well intentioned, is never pleasant. "For the fact that the U.S. came, I say thanks," remarks Kevin Williams of Grand...
...expense of the opponent only hurts both. All that last Saturday's game means is that this year Harvard had a better football team than yale. We can pride in that but tearing up the field implies that we want to prove something more. Everyone condemns the obscenity-hurling drunk who pours beer on the players as they run down the runway at Sullivan Stadium. He's on the fringe, he's out of control, but his attitudes aren't that unique. And before the goalposts fell on Saturday, that attitude sold a lot of "Yale Sucks" bats...
...next time I saw them, we were all drunk, at a party in Straus Hall late that night. None of us were really sure what was going to happen to us--and whether Harvard knew. John looked at me for a second. "That was a great idea," he said...
...barred him from applying for a New York State driver's license for six months. The judge also directed the writer to continue alcoholic counseling. Said Capote: "I pleaded guilty to this thing to get it out of the way, even though I know I wasn't drunk...