Word: stupors
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...what could prove the final act in a drama of tragicomic ineptitude: the "vodka putsch." Remember the three days in August 1991 when a dozen communist leaders imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...
...together and planned this," said McKay. "It wasn't anything done in a drunken stupor...
People of stupor...
...issue of "expressed consent" is particularly important in light of the all too common situation, at Harvard as elsewhere, when a student is taken advantage of while in a drunken stupor, unable to say yes or no. That is rape, and that is what policies like this aim to prevent...
...quad piled with trash and puke. I cannot forget that night. A constant drone of police cars filtered through the window (accompanied by odd flashing lights), and my roommate--it was a cheap place - who happened to be a fellow Englishman, was wallowing in the later stages of drugged stupor. He had come to New York with a mission to explore its gunky side. In his first week he had been mugged--twice. He spent 20 hours a day in those charming boutiques clustered around Times Square. He had an abominable snore. That night I don't think I slept...