Word: winehead
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...policemen will spend anywhere from a few minutes to an hour relaxing in the box-sized living room of a man who neighborhood residents simply call "Winehead." A blind man with a wife and family to support, Winehead sells liquor in his home. His wife buys it at one of the "state stores" supervised by Alabama's beverage control commission. On Sundays or late in the evening, when the state stores are closed, Winehead's business picks up. The profit averages $60 per week -- split 50-50 with the two cops on the three-to-eleven shift...
...surprising that Winehead pays so much for police protection, and that the police are evidently unaware of the far more profitable whiskey house that one Miles operates right across the street. For jealousy among bootleggers and cooperation among police usually guarantee a certain uniformity in the relations between the two groups...
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