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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less wealthy drunk sits down on a bench by the fountain. He yells "Hey!" at each female passerby and then looks away quickly, pretending not to have said anything. He and a guy on the bench with him, a sober 30-year-old with a thick cast on his arm, are both getting quite a kick out of this routine...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: BUS STOP: | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...Well, when I was getting drunk every day, I was having a great time," David replies. "I think Jesus wants that. If that ain't what he wants, then I'm bummin'. Shoot me now, Lord...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: BUS STOP: | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Childhood Nightmares | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...have a problem with drunk people, though. Don't get me wrong, some of my best friends are drunk people. But if you're going to be an asshole when you're drunk, you should be strong enough to act like that when you're fully in control of yourself. Don't hide behind excuses of drunkenness to later explain your lack of restraint, what-ever the transgression may be, from the merely obnoxious to the egregiously criminal...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: A Teetotaler's Thoughts | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...space in order to be heard. Just to be sure I get my point across, I supplement my shouting with sweeping hand gestures that occasionally smack someone behind me upside the head. This, together with my penchant for incoherent rambling, often sends my way the accusation, "You are so drunk...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: A Teetotaler's Thoughts | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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