Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missionaries and traders in 1853. Last week, as the Japanese Government's undercover campaign to purge Christian missions of their foreign elements and reduce Christianity to the status of a minor sect within the Shinto nationalist cult progressed, there was further evidence that Japanese Christians today have no thirst for martyrdom...
...more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks of the Willamette, following the valleys of the Kaw, the Platte, the Sweetwater, the Snake and the lordly Columbia; fording streams . . . suffering hunger, thirst and sickness aggravated by strange diets and exposure - and leaving thousands of un marked graves beside the trail." Their trek, said McNary, was no Gov ernment project. "Land, if you had to work it, never was free. Men paid for it in sweat and blood and loneliness, if not in dollars...
Died. John Eliot Wolff, 82, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...
...promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived from Holland every day but most of these were sent into the Ruhr industrial district to provide additional vitamins for nerve-racked workers harassed nightly by British raiders. Bibulous Berliners, nourishing a long thirst in anticipation of cracking the enormous stocks of wine and champagne captured in France, heard with disappointment that these stocks are being preserved intact for later conversion into foreign exchange-probably...