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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday night in an abandoned building in Hollywood, Aaron tried to kill himself again. He drank cheap vodka and then, after smashing the bottle, used a shard to hack away at his wrists. Maybe he was too drunk; maybe he didn't really want to die. But the effort failed, just like the six other attempts he says he has made. In fact, no one even paid him any attention. "I can't even kill myself," he says. "I walk into traffic, and the cars miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...drunk. So we took him into protective custody and let him dry up in jail," State Trooper William G. McPhee said...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Harvard, State Police Follow Reported Suicide Attempt | 11/16/1994 | See Source »

...shower for a few moments and go as Dylan R. Nieman '97, the first-year who set off Hollis's fire suppression system with his tuxedo shirt and flooded the dorm. Or, wearing that same tux. I could spill a little beer on myself (enough to stink), act loud, drunk and obnoxious, and go as a member of one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Dressed for Success | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

...rookie spy, he left a briefcase stuffed with classified documents on a New York City subway train. He strewed clandestine communications gear around his office, unsecured. He couldn't account for Company money or for himself. His falling-down-drunk episodes were legion, including one at a CIA Christmas party when he had to be carted home. Even when sober, he had incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Wouldn't Know a Mole If It Bit Them | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...always nice to have lots of people around. Especially lots of drunk people. They think they're your friends, especially those big guys who slobber all over you at the Grille. It's not just those little prepsters who have canine tendencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMP ALING GRANDMA ON AN OAR | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

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