Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then his fire got out of control, set the wreckage ablaze, charred his companion's body. He crawled painfully away, huddled near the bottom of the canyon. Two days later his lighter fluid gave out; he could kindle no more fires. He rationed his candy bars, quenched his thirst by scooping holes in a dry creek bed and waiting for water to filter slowly into them...
...government official who once worked on a temporary trial of prohibition in Bombay reported: "The first result of the experiment was a large increase in water consumption. Not because people were quenching their thirst on water. We found it was because people were taking more baths. A woman who had only one sari had not bothered to take a bath; but when her husband could no longer spend his money on toddy he would go out and buy his wife a second sari. She was then encouraged to take baths...
Language for thirst and fear, did most to Prevent a panic. It is the crime that...
...Housman's school), thought that his monastic old school would do better to imitate the social life at St. James in Maryland, where there were three dances a year and dates almost every week. Otherwise he was sticking by Bromsgrove. Said Reeve: "At Bromsgrove, we developed a thirst for knowledge. At St. James, boys were apt to regard culture as a sign of decadence, devotion to learning as the mark of a sissy. The student merely wants to learn enough to pass the next test. Then it goes out of his mind as easily as it came...
Gargantuan Thirst. Only one present type of airplane, the fast, short-range fighter, is well adapted to the jet engine, whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...