Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Happy-Hour Defense Northwest Airlines Captain Norman Prouse offered a woozy excuse when he and two colleagues faced criminal charges for flying a jet while drunk. His lawyer claimed that because Prouse is an alcoholic, the 15 or so rum-and-colas he downed before flying did not impair him as much as they would a moderate drinker. But the judge served up a 16-month sentence...
...Monday, when you haven't been deprived of sleep all week," says Mary Carskadon, director of chronobiology at E.P. Bradley Hospital in Providence. And stopping at a bar with colleagues for a postwork drink can make the situation worse; studies show that it takes less alcohol to make people drunk when they are tired...
...night when Todd Chimura was 15, his 13-year-old girlfriend was strangled in a Seattle park. "After that," Chimura, now 22, recalls sadly, "I stayed , drunk for about five years." He took his meals at a city trash container and rotated in and out of county medical clinics. But sooner or later he would stop taking his medicine, get drunk and wake up strapped down in a hospital bed. After his sixth trip to a state mental institution, caseworkers sent him to the El Rey Treatment Facility...
...worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father in a scrap-wood lean-to. Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them liquor. "These are border toughs," she says...
...author admits that he was not at his best -- "tired, a little drunk, jetlagged, and light-headed" is his recollection. A prudent man would have gone to bed, and the following morning he would have taken the next plane out of Las Vegas...