Word: slake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before real estate brokers or prospectors slake their claims, however, the ticklish international problem of rights on the continent must be solved. The U. S. held on Little America is weak, both legally and physically, warns Professor Rice, because Byrd's settlement is on the Ross ice shelf, which is tech- nically ocean and a "no mans land...
...been unable to give you any help of consequence, an inability which I regret as much as anything in my whole life. But I regard your translation as superior to any before it.-I hope you will continue until you have finished the entire New Testament. Thus you will slake the thirst of all Christians in China . . . and help our Christianity spread ever more widely. Best wishes, Chung-cheng" (Chiang's intimate or "courtesy" signature...
Beer and Belligerence. The Lincoln Courier is housed in a brick building on Courthouse Square, with a game room upstairs where thirsty printers can slake their thirst with beer. The Courier is belligerently Republican, more isolationist than the Chicago Tribune, if possible...
...Even the people who had escaped the starvation of Jap prison camps were undernourished, struggling for a subsistence level of living. Only the Army's Philippines Civil Affairs Unit (nicknamed Pee-Cow) kept the city alive-it served hundreds of thousands of meals, set up water points to slake Manila's thirst...
There was the privy, there the porkers' . pen. Here was the well, and through this mossy head Uprose the bucket, stately, oaken, red To slake the hearty thirsts of lusty men. Hardboiled, our sires. Their water should have been...