Word: quench
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Neither coffee nor tea (with or without ice) can take milk's place. There is but one beverage that can both nourish and quench thirsts. Its use would be a triumph for the forces of gracious living. A hearkening to the academic customs of our forefathers, its reinstitution would find endorsal both in hoary tradition and the hearts of undergraduates...
...also fatal, continued the general, to neglect Asia for Europe. "One would be foolhardy indeed to quench a fire in the kitchen while leaving another room aflame . . ." MacArthur belabored another pet Democratic policy: "The Administration is obsessed by the idea that we can spend ourselves into a position of leadership abroad, just as it believes we can spend ourselves into prosperity at home . . . Both are based upon illusory premises . . . World leadership can only rest upon world respect. Such respect is one of those spiritual ideals . . . influenced solely by the soundness of ... our own civilization...
...switchmen to college students and their friends. Although no "intoxicants" are allowed on campus. New York State is not dry, and 18 is the legal age for drinking. Local establishments, The Tap, Barge, Maxl's and many others, provide a convenient rendezvous for dates, and a good place to quench one's thirst...
...kerosene mist, they discovered that the intricate process of combustion was much slower than they had expected. It took all of one-hundredth of a second for the expanding pressure of the explosion to rise one pound per square inch. That left "bags of time," they decided, to quench an accidental explosion before it could cause any damage...
...plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...