Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirst for Victory...
...Elis, who came to Cambridge with great expectations and a thirst for victory unquenched since 1916, went away not much better off. Kane lead his team to a convincing 10 to 3 victory in the Stadium...
...Thirst for Knowledge. Reported missing by worried Harvard University authorities, Student Samuel E. Stuart, 25, was discovered in New York on the ninth day, explained that he had been so engrossed in studies that he really hadn't realized how long he had been away until he read all about it in a newspaper...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
Milk-starved undergraduates, who were forced to forego their accustomed number of glasses of milk at lunch and dinner yesterday, will be able to quench their thirst again as the University's milk supply returns to normal today, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, announced last night...