Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's the George Scott who suffered through strings of strikeouts last summer, who listened to mob howls of "Boooooomer" fade to flat, drunken curses: "Fat nigger." And it's the Boomer who didn't want to talk about racism...
...good fortune of the very, very few who are born into an artistic movement that mirrors their inner sensibility, whose untrammeled self-expression jibes exactly, as if predestined, with the zeitgeist. He was the quintessential punk, with his chalk-white, emaciated body, his spiked hair and suicide-scars and drunken, fun-loving leer. When he danced the pogo, it became the rage; when he pieced together his clothes with safety pins, that device became the emblem of an entire subculture. He realized that old age would be a breach of decorum--that, like Keith Moon, he could never grow...
...Lyons added he would rather see the drinking age raised to 19 than left alone. "A bunch a drunken 18-year-olds are idiots," he said...
Tuesday, the governor poured statistics of rising highway carnage and school vandalism on the legislature's joint Committee on Government Regulation and blamed much of the destruction on drunken teenagers. Wednesday the committee voted on a bill to raise the drinking age. Now before the Ways and Means Committee, the bill may reach the floor of the House by next Monday and the Senate by next Wednesday...
...Schlesinger goes beyond mere prose in its quest for a complete women's collection. A group of suffrage posters hang in the light, uncrowded reading room. One, which indicates that even suffragettes were class conscious, shows a neatly dressed young woman listening to a large, dirty, drunken man in a worker's cloth cap tell her, "Wot do you wimmin want the vote for? You ain't fit for it!" A large banner of the "Harvard League for Women's Suffrage" is prominently displayed nearby...