Word: lusted
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Otis Town's lust for land, and the wartime price of cotton, carried him from poverty to fantastic wealth and ruin, made assorted monsters of his wife and children, and left him in the end with a certain indestructible magnificence. It is the vivid history of Delta cotton and the people who raised it, from the day when they cleared the first land to the early '20s, when cotton let them down and the great Northern combines took over...
...tropic islands' American governor has "fingers that lust for gold." A U.S. newspaper reporter is "dissipated and dollar-greedy." The Nazi film captions him "a true-to-life American characterization." The rest of the cast are just miscellaneous rascals without character but "all more or less the type of the conscienceless plutocratic mammon...
...somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting is unobtrusive, his humor humorous. Occasional references to carnal pursuits give a discreet impression of Elizabethan lust...
When the orchestra was scheduled to play in Lisbon last year, 500 Nazi "music lovers" applied for Portuguese visas in order to attend the concert in person. Portugal, suspecting the Nazis' lust for music, refused...
...refinement, our machines have often approached perfection; but no similar development has been visible in the education of men. On the contrary: the typical human product of our time, especially among the leaders of our society, is either a paranoid personality, warped by delusions of grandeur and an insatiable lust for power, or a split personality, in which the intellectual, the emotional and the practical sides are divided into watertight compartments. The first type tends to be destructive; the second, trivial or impotent...