Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golf course, movies, ball park, race track. Or he could try to take philosophic comfort from the worldlywise, 400-year-old advice of Cervantes: "Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger and thirst...
Scientists have lately announced a number of ingenious new contraptions to make sea water drinkable, but the war's ship wrecked have yet to quench their thirst with one of them. Last week two Navy chemists produced what looked like the first really practical solution. The Navy thought so well of their invention that it ran off a demonstration for newsmen...
...with as much fiery speechmaking as Jinnah's Moslem League had displayed. "Cultural squads" reworded ageless folk tunes into and-Japanese songs. The Bombay sweeper-women gave a specialty dance. Characteristically Indian was one Red chant set to an old devotional tune: "Do not think that revolution means thirst for blood; it means love for a higher life...
...death, and, feeling she might achieve this by excessive drinking, drank more than a tumblerful of wine every night. . . ." She wound up in the hospital, sick and stuporous after drinking a pint of wine. After her sister got well and her father hired a housekeeper, Mary's thirst disappeared. In fact, the idea of wine nauseated...
...size book to be distributed by the American Red Cross. Its title: Science from Shipboard. Its purpose: to answer the questions that landlubbers debate at sea-waves and wind, stars and navigation, time and the calendar, sea life, oceanic birds, islands and shore lines, seasickness and homesickness, exposure and thirst...