Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skeeter and his friends start down late in the afternoon to buy beer (hard liquor isn't sold in north Georgia after sundown because of the region's astronomical murder rates) and then stop to eat supper at the Brazier Burger. After eating Skeeter gulps down several cans of beer and begins to smile, "Gotta get loose, so I can daince ever' daince," he says...
...alcoholism rarely seemed to embarrass him, though he often felt guilty over the suffering it caused his wife Zelda. Drinking, in fact, had always attracted him: as a boy, he pretended drunkenness; as an adult, he introduced himself as "F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known alcoholic." He claimed that liquor "heightened feelings," and he declined psychiatric treatment because he thought he would not write as well if he stopped drinking...
...Life, or something equally dreadful. Mailer awarded him a nickel's worth of evil-eye and walked away. An aggressive Nieman wife monopolized our guest at the cocktail hour, standing pelvis-to-pelvis, while everyone else stood apart to gape and shit-kick like Jimmy Stewart. A voice with liquor and maybe some jealousy in it said too loudly that Mailer was over-rated. The beginnings of bad vibrations tingled my spine, and I wondered whether Styron's doctor might be on call if needed...
...rally of Mexican Americans against the war in Viet Nam, but it ended in violence and tragedy. Shortly after noon, some 7,000 Chicanos started marching along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to Laguna Park, where the rally was to climax. But so many people jammed into a liquor store next to the park that soon the harassed clerks were unable to wait on them; some of the customers walked out without paying for their bottles. When sheriff's deputies began arresting the casual looters, rocks and bottles were tossed, and the riot...
...been damaged. The stock drop has affected the psychological climate ?and thus the spending plans?of all kinds of businesses. Moreover, as stockholders have felt the pinch, the decline has brought hard times to enterprises as varied as restaurants, nightclubs, gambling casinos, summer-rental brokerages, yacht builders, jewelers, liquor stores and fur shops...