Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
...Freudian psychiatry a natural enemy of Roman Catholicism? The question was still warm last week, thanks to the set-to between Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Psychiatrist Frank J. Curran (TIME, July 28). Not likely to quench the flames of controversy was an article in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by Catholic Psychologist Dr. Harry McNeill, prewar teacher at Fordham University, now a clinical psychologist in the Veterans Administration. Gist of the article: the Church has much to learn from Freud-and vice versa. Excerpts...
Milk-starved undergraduates, who were forced to forego their accustomed number of glasses of milk at lunch and dinner yesterday, will be able to quench their thirst again as the University's milk supply returns to normal today, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, announced last night...
Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton tried hard to quench the flames. Yugoslavia, he pointed out, had tentatively agreed to pay indemnities to the families of the dead airmen. (Probable amount: between $300,000 and $400,000.) U.S. indemnity for the planes was still being discussed. Cautiously he skirted another, more compelling issue. To the suggestions that relief to Yugoslavia be stopped, he replied that that was a matter for UNRRA to decide; a U.S. embargo would be a violation of an international commitment, in which the U.S. is bound by the decisions of a nine-nation UNRRA central committee...
When fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the downtown Leader Building, the canvassers stopped firemen rushing in to quench the flames, handed them pamphlets describing the coming destruction of the world by fire which is part of the Witnesses' dogma...