Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Command Decision (by William Wister Haines; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) had several critics waist-deep in adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...
...percent of the people of Oxford had diabetes. Of these, nearly half (30 people) had no idea that they were diabetics. A majority were in comparatively late stages of the disease, with acute but unrecognized symptoms (cramps in the arms & legs, loss of weight, intense itching, fatigue, overeating, unusual thirst...
...gods were thirsty. To water the land, and to control the temperamental waters of the Kosi River in Bihar Province, the Indian Government planned the world's highest dam (730 ft.). But many a simple villager thought the plans for the dam would simply sharpen the thirst of the gods for human blood...
Underlying the whole academic effort is a thirst for knowledge. Just the use of English as the medium for all communication presents a challenge. Students read into the small hours--and not to cram for examinations, for the only academic hurdles are voluntary papers suggested by their seminar leaders...
...thirst of movie audiences for a not-too-delicate combination of the two M's, marriage and murder, evidently has not yet been quenched. Bouncing back after "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed...