Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the Antilles toward the U.S., bypassing Cuba ("because I didn't want to get shot down"). He had enough fuel to make it to Los Angeles, but decided to land at El Paso because his jugs were empty and he was parched with thirst. Said he, as he downed a bottle of pop after landing: "I could have drunk a barrel of water...
...live within 1,000 kilometers of the Nevada test sites, that nearly as many Russians live within a similar radius of the Soviet test center in Kazakhstan, but that only a few hundred thousand people live within 1,000 kilometers of the French testing center in the Desert of Thirst near Reggan...
...young guide, the two Americans and one of the Frenchmen. Officials could only guess that the other had either struck out on his own or had died even before his companions. There was no evidence of foul play. An autopsy concluded that the young men had died of thirst and sunstroke...
...rawest nerve of all. Without waiting for the Algerian rebels themselves to reply to De Gaulle's new peace plan (see below), Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy denounced France, De Gaulle, the new peace plan, and the French military in Algeria, whom he labeled torturers "with a thirst for blood." At this, the entire French delegation walked...
...front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive...