Word: lusted
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...other side of the restaurant, Michelle R. Voci, clutching her black suede purse on her lap, disproves Aamoth's theory about women's lust for Husky cheeseburgers...
Donald Forst, Newsday's New York editor, explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just...
...echo carried that far and beyond. Drexel's notorious junk bonds -- debt instruments that pay high rates of interest because of the relative shakiness of the ventures they fund -- turned the financial world topsy-turvy and helped set the tone for the money lust that gripped America in the '80s. Armed with the bonds, corporate raiders swiftly raised the money they needed to attack even the largest companies. At the same time, investment bankers raked in billions of dollars by advising the raiders and selling junk bonds to eager borrowers. In what corporate America saw as a glorified protection racket...
Novels by Dame Iris Murdoch are about as sturdy and reliable as a well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...
...falling apart. As well there should have been, the censorious might add: he was a rake, too fond of cards, women and the bottle for his own good. And his work is full of Dreadful Elders, gouty, poxed, many-chinned, snouted, toothless, cunning, gross and mangy, peering with lust and censure at the beautiful juicy young, who mainly ignore them. This, he keeps saying, is what you will come to. He is saying it to the viewer, of course, but most insistently to himself...