Word: quenched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They don't read to free themselves of guilt, quench the thirst for rebellion or get rid of alienation...
...good mood that day was too irrepressible to quench. He had Politicians' Euphoria, a condition I later came to recognize on election-night victories-that moment of vulnerability when candidates are at their loosest and most expansive. Ike held a drink in his hand, and I found myself in a corner encouraging his indiscretion. Baron Krupp had just been freed from Allied imprisonment; and two of us launched him on that subject. There was nothing we could do about Krupp now in 1952, said Ike; we had to let Krupp go free; but he didn't like...
...that had been sleeping less than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants, and at night elephant herds have been known to lumber blindly through troop positions. But the main hazard is the growing number of guerrillas coming across the borders. Says one major: "No army...
...Novorossisk plant mainly supplies the sunny Black Sea resort area, but other plants are coming in the Crimea, Moscow, Leningrad and Tallinn. Pepsi is promoted as a health-giving tonic-an ideal way, as Novorossisk Plant Manager Andrei Oganov puts it, "to quench the thirst, invigorate the body and raise the tone." The chief problem the Russians have had with it is a low rate of bottle returns: despite a 120 deposit included in the 540 price, souvenir-minded Russians have been hanging on to two of every five bottles sold...
Black people could not gain lodging in the hotels of the cities; nor could they quench their thirst at a drinking fountain--even in a public building. These signs bolted the door to the new and well-equipped schools near Martin King's home, and denied him a seat on the yellow bus that carried the white children to those schools. Those signs were calculated to effectively impress upon the mind of every Black person that he and she had been meticulously read out of the Declaration of Independence and reduced to three-fifths of a person (and then only...