Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar, 51, success is hard. He is off the bottle ("I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good"), but his psychiatrist sessions went up from one to three a week...
...lights are dim around the huge horseshoe bar, and the many couples leaning together, heads filled with beer and good bourbon, make the room even darker. There is a dance later, at which no liquor is allowed...
...there's been no damage tonight; ahll the boys 've been verry quiet and well-behaved. They can't brring liquor...
...windswept Wellington (pop. 122,400), the seaport capital of New Zealand, mothers hurried their daughters off the streets, hotels and pubs increased their liquor stocks, restaurants and roadhouses and easy women prepared for stirring times. Steaming into port was the factory ship, Slava, and a fleet of 25 whalers. Aboard were 1,060 officers and men, back from eight months of solitude and hard work in the Antarctic with a catch of 14,000 whales and just over $160,000 in spending money. Wellingtonians nervously awaited the first landing party...
...working for his engineering degree who lives with his parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs: "She was a kind of Toscanini of the sigh. She ranged from a lonely flute to a sixty-mile gale...