Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach postwar college students, religion "must begin from scratch," concludes Professor West. He believes that that is perfectly practical. Of the typical college student he writes: "His image of God is vague. But his hunger and thirst after righteousness and the things of the Spirit are keen, even if confused. The Bible is a strange new Book of Life to him. When he has a chance to read it with self-criticism and with Christian guidance, he is fascinated with it and with its lasting insights and demands. In spite of his religious illiteracy, which mirrors our culture and tends...
...Heat & Thirst. Such spirit helped to keep General Walker's "limited offensive" going on the south coast, in spite of appalling difficulties. Advancing on two winding roads through rugged country, the U.S. columns rarely had the flank protection they should have had. The enemy seemed to know just what the U.S. commanders were...
Combing out this enemy pocket and others on crests over 3,000-ft. high, in 100° heat, the marines found themselves suffering from thirst and dropping from heat exhaustion. Some marines were sent to relieve an infantry company which was cut off and being supplied with ammunition and water by air drop. Some of the dropped material fell too far away to recover; some of the water containers burst when they hit the ground...
...what is our hope? In the famine and thirst! The danger ... is that the hunger and the thirst will be stilled by the frothy pabulum of the 'Christian ethic,' and that the people will be full and yet not fed. But there are signs . . . that the people no longer 'love to have it so.' In the gnawing hunger and the burning thirst is our only hope: 'Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord...
...dreadful dropsy grows apace, Nor can the sufferer banish thirst, Unless the cause of the malady has first Departed from the veins...