Word: parching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
True or not, the tale Nass River Indians had to tell, half a century ago, was enough to parch the lips of any prospectors. This is what they said: not far from their hunting & fishing grounds at Observatory Inlet, 500 miles north of Vancouver, was a "mountain of gold." Two prospectors, led there by Indians, found only "fool's gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find...
...situation has political potentialities. Frustrated Canadian drinkers, full of wrath and woe, naturally blame the Government. Their term for the great parch: "Mackenzie King Prohibition...
...will parch in a nutural frustration...