Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo the rigors of adaptation...
...relation, were apprehended in the act of removing the sign by patrolman William Mullen, who brought them to the Dedham Jail, where they spent the night. In the morning the judge fined them $10 each, and Hugh Williams an additional $35 for driving under the influence of alcohol...
...spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
...that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...
Prohibition was comparatively calm according to John, except for a certain fruit juice peddler. When he was arrested for soliciting in freshman dorms without permission, police examined his "fruit juice" and labeled it 16 percent alcohol...