Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters were the "thirst emporiums" on the Right Bank, and rare was the visiting fireman in Paris who missed him. Night in & out the indestructible little columnist organized his "death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author...
...young people have a great American thirst to improve themselves. They are the nouveaux riches of culture, fond of words like "whence," "whereof" and "elucidate." A beautiful word like "osculation" serves Bella the double purpose of showing both learning and gentility...
Winston Churchill was certainly conscious of the scene's aptness. This was a week in which all Britain was holding its breath. It was a week in which, to assuage the public thirst for revenge, the Government and R.A.F. had sanctioned a furious incendiary raid on Berlin, along whose Unter den Linden proud establishments like the State Opera and Prussian State Library were fired. It was a week in which the Germans began to talk again, loudly and confidently, of invading the British Isles. It was also a week in which Coventry had been blasted "worse than Coventry...
...words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "This day shall thou be with Me in Paradise." "Behold Thy Mother. Behold Thy Son." "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "I thirst." "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit...
Ella Bishop (Miss Scott) is a country girl with a thirst for knowledge, no taste for fun or marriage, when she turns up at half-completed Midwestern University for its first session. Graduated with honors she gets a job teaching freshman English, stays on at Midwestern for 51 years while presidents come and go and the little prairie college becomes a mammoth institution...