Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolster'd with down, amid a thousand wants, Pale Dropsy rears his bloated form, and pants; "Quench me, ye cool pellucid rills," he cries, Wets his parched tongue and rolls his hollow eyes...
After the race, his chubby French wife straightened his bow tie and Frenchy filled the ten-inch-across gold cup with water so that Happy Issue might quench her well-earned thirst. That evening, a dozen celebration guests straw-sipped champagne from the cup-and glowed with hopes for Happy Frenchy in the Santa Anita Handicap, scheduled to be run again March 3 for the first time since Pearl Harbor. A week later, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes ruled racing...
...Cubs by their owner P. K. Wrigley after they had already lost ten games and Manager Jimmy Wilson had been ousted. As soon as he could find someone to take over his successful Milwaukee Brewers,* Grimm jumped at the chance. Even last week's continuing losses could not quench the optimism of his many admirers. He has an unmatched reputation in Chicago and, on paper, the Cubs seem to have everything they need to top the weak wartime heap...
...dandelions across the Business School vista may be, the vernal efforts of Dame Nature are not alone responsible for the jubilation of the Junior Ensigns. Theirs is the joy of accomplishment which the combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number 58-977, by force of habit...
...truly independent Poland. In Russia, a Soviet-sponsored Polish National Council stood ready to make full-fledged claims to speak for all Poland. For a nation of patriots, for the people whom Winston Churchill had eulogized as "that heroic race whose national spirit centuries of misfortune cannot quench," this was a tragic hour...