Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth weekend has always made me queasy. It has always ended unhappily, leaving me drinking myself into insensibility over another football loss at a party I didn't want to go to, retching liquor I didn't want to drink in some bathroom I didn't want to remember. It has been like that ever since I have been here. It is not a pleasant memory...
...which occurred and returned to the Wagler incident for more "in-depth" coverage. Saturday's papers was a battle of one-ups-manship to see which paper could offer the most colorful background story of the Wagler death, including a simulation of Wagler's one block run to the liquor store--minus the flames but with a vivacious model as Wagler...
...Rodney Becker and two other couples have driven 90 miles from Turtle Lake, Wis. Becker, a grocer, brings not only food and liquor for 40 friends but also a Xeroxed schedule of Sunday's events: "Wake 8 a.m.-Green Bay fans calisthenics; 8:30 a.m.-Viking fans calisthenics." Wine drinking and "rest" come next, leaving three hours for a breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausage and more wine...
...holders. "Only difference," says Ginny, "is that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from congregating at the Braman "club" after the game, swapping stories, and drinking beer, which the Bramans do permit. "I look for the pennant on the bamboo stick after every home game," says Defensive Lineman Bob Lurtsema. "If I can't find...
...level of liquor consumption often calls for some precautionary measures to remind revelers of the dangers of drunken driving. Two trailers from the Hennepin County Alcohol Safety Project offer breath tests to volunteers who want to know their intoxication levels. The police administer the program and drive the vans, but are good sports about leaving before the tailgaters drive off. Says Policeman Don Bowles, "If we stayed any longer, we'd have to arrest half the people here...