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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence, Kans. After learning from a survey of 500 schools that 80% believed their students needed more help in handling drink, the U.S. Brewers Association obligingly announced it would publish a quarterly On-Campus Review to help concerned administrators keep up to date on consumption. To cut down on drunken driving, the University of Massachusetts encourages students to use a free Saturday night bus service, dubbed "the drunk run," which shuttles back and forth between local gin mills and the UMASS campus in Amherst. Dartmouth is considering a similar shuttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going Back to the Booze | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...systematic campaign to cleanse the country of the "filth" of foreign influence. "There is no room for play in Islam. It is dead serious about everything." he declared earlier to a gathering of supporters at Qum's Madreseh Faizieh Islamic academy. "We want mujaheds [crusaders], not drunken revelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Forced March Backward | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...marines at that time told me that he and his friends considered Havana "one long chain of wild nights." Lest Cubans forget, a reminder is kept in the museum at the Moncada garrison, where the revolution lost its first men. It is a photograph of a drunken American sailor urinating on the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's most revered hero...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...county, some 1,700 miles a month. In only a few days, in three different courts, Moran will change some child visitation rights, grant half a dozen divorces, hear pretrial motions on a first-degree murder charge, listen to motions on a complex home-construction case, sentence a drunken driver, a housebreaker and a cocaine peddler (90 days' probation). The legal issues and questions he constantly confronts hop from civil to criminal to constitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chewing on It in Nebraska | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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