Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great pride in their craftsmanship ("Every day's program should be interesting in its own right") and talk solemnly about the beneficial influence of Life Can Be Beautiful on 3,300,000 faithful listeners. "Papa David's warmth and wisdom are a great comfort to listeners who thirst for inspirational things like this," Beckby feels. "We are reaching, always reaching for an expression of courageous faith-a word of comfort, a word of hope. We bring the message that, however dark the world, however unhappy the particular situation, this, too, will pass, and life can be beautiful...
...Thirst & Beatings. As war correspondent for the London Observer, Author Deane had flown from Athens "to cover this little war." He hitchhiked his way to Taejon in time to see Major General William Dean's green 24th Division chopped to pieces by 15 divisions of North Korean Communists. On his very first day, he helped with the wounded. He saw the army "doctors operate ceaselessly, their hands bare, blood spattered down their fatigues. No rubber gloves, no white smocks here. Stitch this, clip that, sponge, stitch, clip, saw-faster, faster, faster, there are more waiting." At the front...
...thigh. When the Communists charged and captured the house, their first act was to shoot the wounded G.I.s who could not stand. Then the survivors were stripped, kicked, beaten and marched off. At each village, they were turned over to the civilians to be beaten further. The heat and thirst became maddening: "Rice paddies are fertilized with human excreta, but we drank, drank deep, and dipped our burning heads in the stinking water. A shaggy, dusty buzzard dropped not six feet away from me and resumed the meal the pilots of the United Nations had interrupted. Under his claws were...
...Freedom from Thirst: "He leadeth me beside the still waters...
Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...