Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horror story of the Axis submarine campaign off the Atlantic coast was still being told last week by pallid, bearded men who had come through the prolonged agonies of thirst and sickness in open boats. The progress of the fight against the subs was told in a summary that was not so impressive...
...They prayed for rain. Without water, they were afraid to eat the hardtack and chocolate. They ate seaweed and some of them drank sea water. Once they came within a few yards of a coral island, but the coral was so sharp that they could not wade ashore. Hunger, thirst and the Caribbean sun began to madden and kill them...
...especially when it catches fire. There were stones last week of intolerable exposure, of hunger and thirst in lifeboats, of burned, screaming men, of heroic attempts to save crazed, suffering men from leaping to their death. When two tankers were attacked and burned off New Jersey and Florida, there were only three survivors from crews of 79. At week's end the Axis U-boat campaign in U.S. coastal waters had destroyed at least 27 ships, of which 17 were tankers...
...W.C.T.U. ladies have little hope of talking soldiers & sailors out of their thirst. Their strategy is to worry legislators into drying up local areas all over the country. Their favorite piece of legislation is the Sheppard Bill, now receiving the lackluster attention of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The bill combines three pious prohibitions: 1) of prostitution in camp areas; 2) of the sale of all liquor in camps themselves; 3) of liquor in areas around the camps...
...Europe the innocent are punished for the acts of invisible rebels, under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed...