Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
Scottish distilleries have made no whiskey since war began, but in Britain, the Empire, North & South America the thirst for Scotch has grown bigger & bigger...
...like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill...
Sunny's thirst for knowledge is something of an anticlimax in a short but eventful life. She grew up in Matagorda, Tex., where her father was an oil man-"I guess you'd call him a wildcatter." He was also, says Sunny, "sort of a heller." One day he was shot in a Texas hotel room ("Right between the eyes," says Sunny). Nobody ever found...