Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil that has the capabilities of mass destruction of society." Says Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, who lobbied for the law: "The response of the broadcast industry to its new mandate to serve children is horrifying once you stop laughing. If their lawyers weren't drunk, they must be sick." Not necessarily. Regulators in the Reagan Administration once tried to cut funds for school lunch programs by classifying catsup as a vegetable...
...gets painful after a while, like watching people who can no longer control their actions: the drunk bellying up to the bar for one last drink to keep the other 10 company. We could just as well put people to work weeding the median strips on the interstates or digging holes and filling them back up, but we make weapons, so when we want to employ people, we make more weapons; any other form of publicly sponsored employment is derided as "leaf raking" and possibly socialism...
...small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child had spent just seven months with his mother. While a weeping Rachel Kingsley listened, he recalled how she often came home drunk and kept a stash of marijuana "in a brown box on a table in the living room." At the end, the courtroom broke into applause as . Judge Kirk announced, "Gregory, you're the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russ at this moment." Then the boy's lawyer presented him with...
Comparing Willamson to a "punch-drunk prize fighter who has lost every round to a better opponent," Terkel said, "it's the last round and he hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning unless he hits foul punches...
...Most of them are fairly egotistical and not nice in general. They get drunk and talk shit," Jesse says...