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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks of Harvard students who get drunk are growing, but so are the numbers of those who don't touch alcohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Abusers, More Abstainers | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style - and undeterred a brutish appearance and a thick German accent, began his conquest of the Bourse and the glittering salons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Sep. 5, 1983 | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...jobs without a good excuse will lose a day of vacation for each day they play hooky. If they miss more than three hours of work, it will be treated as a full day's absence. The penalties for overindulging in vodka are just as harsh. Anyone found drunk on the job may be summarily fired and will have to pay for damaged goods or lost production. Describing the new decrees, the party daily Pravda blamed not only workers but also managers who did not "set an example of discipline, proper organization of their work, or full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Getting Everyone on the Wagon | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...heroines--Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja)--come from good middle-class homes, do well at school, and consequently are initially classified as "nerds" (The word means the same in Australian.) The two aspire to join the surfer gang, shedding their morals by cheating on exams, getting drunk, and getting laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Fall Comes | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

...parallel bars. I tended to reel off sideways, the result of having remained too long in an enclosed space. (After we had spent a few years in small cells in the Boniato prison, several of us were brought out into the corridors: we reeled as if we were drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Castro's Prisons | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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