Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...
...stocking feet, weighs a solid 193 lb., wears a size eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield's State officers for embezzlement. Then she attacks his economy record: "He asks for advancement...
Almost equidistant between two oceans, South Dakota has long been muffled in the wide spaces of its prairies, now green after the drought years. But today South Dakotans talk of the Battle of Burma, thirst after another raid on faraway Tokyo, seem less interested in the local issues which seem to dominate the campaign. The primary date...
...This is a beautiful book by an artist who knows not a little of the thirst for ideals which has always tortured the best of men."−Saturday Review of Literature...