Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DiCara returned Thursday from a CYO ski trip to Lake George, N.Y. Though he refused to get on skis, he agreed to be one of the chaperones for a group of 140 teenagers. One of his tasks was to check suitcases for liquor before departure. DiCara, who looks much older than 21, recalled with a laugh one special episode on the trip. "I was dancing with a couple of gals and really keeping up with them. I love to dance and I was wearing this white turtle neck, pretty avant-garde for me. So I got a standing ovation from...
...hotels. No American girl who values her reputation enters the Continental bar/lobby; here the French drinking companions are American pilots-employed by Air America, paid by the CIA, earning $1000 a week for airlifting "rice" to tribal villagers, drowning out the echoes of antiaircraft fire with dope and liquor. "Laotian neutrality" and American "food aid" are pretty good jokes when you're ripped...
...sharpen the pace of a story. In Centurions, they are encountered as a policeman would encounter them, matter-of-factly, almost at random, and all the more real for it. Wambaugh has also portrayed cops beating suspects, insulting Negroes, bending arrest reports to satisfy courtroom requirements, or stashing liquor in their favorite call boxes. The policeman-author, who is now a burglary detective, has been admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis, officially, because he failed to get permission to publish The New Centurions. Presumably, though, the department also was not pleased by Wambaugh's literary lapse...
...shunned moralizing in favor of viewing alcoholism as an emotional crutch combined with a physical allergy to liquor. Thus A.A.'s methods leaned more heavily on psychology than physiology. Recognizing that alcoholics must not merely control their consumption but curb it entirely, A.A. members listened to each other's stories and helped one another resist the temptation to drink. But they never forgot that the major effort to abstain must be made by the drinker himself. "The only requirement for A.A. membership," according to an organization tradition, "is a sincere desire to stop drinking...
...president of the Friends of Harvard Track was present and offered to foot the bill, but McCurdy refused, saying that it was about time some people learned a lesson. So McCurdy got the bill, figured it per head and charged everyone for his share. This seven-dollar liquor bill eventually appeared on the June 1968 term bill as miscellaneous athletic fees...