Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fares were collected. But some passengers insisted on paying. In one day two soldiers-driver and conductor-collected $48. They spent $8 getting drunk, saved $8 for another day, put the rest in war savings. Other soldiers used their take to buy drinks for the strikers...
Calculation. At the University of Chicago, Sherman Dryer, director of the Mutual Broadcasting System's recent 30-minute simplification of Einstein's relativity theory, calculated that during their six-weeks condensation period his staff had read 25 books, written 121 pages of notes, drunk 85 cups of black coffee, taken 30 aspirins, and used up 22 erasers...
...airfield was secured following two violent Jap countercharges which dwindled finally into melodramatic suicide. Drunk with beer and saki, the Japs dashed in waves against American machine guns...
...Crosse, Wis., Swancutt was well and unfavorably known. He had been divorced, had married his wife again (they have two boys, aged ten and eight). At the La Crosse police station are 15 entries against his name. Among them: attempted suicide, drunk & disorderly conduct, larceny. He was serving a 90-day sentence for vagrancy when his draft board called him up. The police let him out to join the Army...
...that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most promising member of their educated family, their affectionate concern for her and their stupefied distress at the ghastly events that begin when Tracy, drunk, sick, increasingly demoralized, tries to buy a black husband for her. The town of Maxwell in the windless heat of Georgia midsummer, with a revival meeting in full swing, with nice girls (white) also discovering they are pregnant, sins being sweatingly confessed while the old Methodist hymns roll out over...