Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casehardened. In Gateshead, England, after his arrest for drunken driving, James Scott admitted under oath that he had downed 13 pints of beer on the night he was arrested, argued that "it would take 15 pints to put me under the influence," was acquitted when a police sergeant testified that Scott was "well used to taking drink...
...maximum; he often got much less. Wolfe cared little for his appearance. He went to classes unshaven and unbathed; financial conditions restricted his supply of clothes. It didn't bother him: "I lived in a kind of dream at first, a species of nightmare--at last--in a radiance--drunken with joy and power...
Witness for the Prosecution. In Philadelphia, John Blakeley, plaintiff in a drunken-driving case in which his car was clunked, was jailed for ten days for showing up in court intoxicated...
Testy Pilot. In Wichita, Kans., police refused to accept Motorist Johnny Eli's complaint that a passenger airliner was "trying to crowd me off the road," arrested him for drunken driving on the city airport's runway...
...agreed to meet twice, first playing the "Boston game" and then the McGill rugby. Harvard won the first match easily, and held the Canadians to a scoreless tie at their own game. A half-dollar admission was charged, and the $250 collected was used by both teams for a drunken orgy...