In his early months, Mr. Andropov moved decisively to crack down on people idling or drinking during working hours, and some prominent officials were sent to the firing squad after conviction on charges of corruption.
The smoking, drinking, idle poor is a concept that, much like the shirking disabled, makes a good scapegoat.
In 1881, Lodge called Irish immigrants "undesirable" as well as "hard-drinking, idle, quarrelsome and disorderly".
Bored with his plain and coarse wife, he ventures into a tea shop in town operated by a man from the south where the rich and idle spend their time drinking, gambling, and visiting prostitutes.
I idled in coffee shops, drinking coffee that tasted like burned corn, instead of the foamy pungency I remembered from before the war.
Time has a funny way of seeming to stretch infinitely before one in Jaisalmer, during days spent visiting the jewel-box Jain temples dedicated to Rishabhdevji, Sambhavanathji and Ashtapadi, idling on rooftop cafes drinking lassi or scanning the desert from the fortress walls.
Immoderate drinking, flirtation, and idle chatter were outlawed, and "peculiar" religious and cultural ideas were frowned on.
"Olive Garden", like somewhere you'd want to hang out, idling beneath vine leaves and drinking a glass of wine.
On a recent winter day, a man idling near the stores said he had been drinking and sleeping in Whiteclay since the fall.
