Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career as a rake's progress. An early prohibitionist named Curne gave the legend a head start 150 years ago; in a biography written shortly after Burns's death, he portrayed him as a kind of Paul Bunyan of literary bad boys: a convivial roisterer of unslakable thirst and insatiable lust...
...himself momentarily at loose ends. But Stanley, a radio bug, and an interested participant in the Atomic Age, soon found something to do. He got out his tools and hooked up a microphone, a four-watt amplifier and an eight-inch loudspeaker. Then, seized with the kind of dreamy thirst for power which causes humans to throw matches into gas tanks or shoot fat women with BB guns, he leaned over and began to speak...
...football game in Princeton does not quench the weekender's thirst for sports, it might be worth noting that Laurent Dauthuille and Paddy Young, two of the finest middleweights around, have a ten-round go at 10 p.m. tonight in Madison Square Garden...
...thirst a flagon of good wine...
...alcoholism so that a discharged patient can say like other men, "I can take it or leave it alone." However, if the cause of the compulsion to drink can be tracked down, it can often be rooted out by mental treatment. In Anderson's case, the unquenchable thirst was the result of an unquenchable ambition to "get ahead" and "make something of himself," always in competition with his successful, overshadowing father...