Word: slake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol for powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...
...driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead was lighthearted German Cornejo. Dead...