Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biscuit," was an Irish bartender; another, "Bulldog," a sahib type. "Number Four" was the ship's purser, a one-legged mulatto. "Sea-Wyf" (mermaid) was a handsome young woman of mystery, and much of the story concerns her saintly attempts to impose decency on the three men, although thirst, storms, submarines and rat-infested atolls worked to turn them into cowards and murderers...
Welles gave Lear not character but personality. The quest for effect outlawed inwardness; the thirst for size defeated stature. And the City Center cast had neither Shakespearean style nor personal distinction...
...Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand . . . 'Woe to him,' he cried in a loud voice, as though he were pronouncing a curse, 'woe to him who has slaked his thirst!' " For Captain Michales himself there is only one thirst more unslakable than life -freedom-and at novel's end, he dies trying to quench...
Before the balloting, Faure had told a Cabinet meeting that he had no desire to continue in office with Communist support. He had not been defeated, and therefore was not obliged to resign. Edgar Faure, whose thirst for the premiership is all but unquenchable, decided to stay on the job, even though the Communists had given him his margin of survival...
...blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...