Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling." It is the man's nakedness that fills the painting with a feeling of doom. In mid-Australia, stripping off clcothes is legendarily the last crazed, automatic act of a man dying for lack of water in a wasteland-an act the Aussies laconically call "doing a thirst...
...Britain 200 years ago, the thirst for the picturesque was almost as powerful as the thirst for port. Since Queen Elizabeth's day, there had been a lively interest in the "luxuriance of fancy" and "fayr-est workmanshippe" that assumed the Orient to be one vast curio shop. Toward the end of the 18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these...
...people, and the cost is just about what New York City pays for water brought down by gravity from the rainy Catskill Mountains only 70 miles away. The price remains prohibitive for irrigation, but cities in arid districts are glad to pay even more to slake their thirst...
...relative East, they ate three-star meals, with hot biscuits, fresh butter, honey, milk, cream, venison, wild peas, tea and coffee all included in a single typical dinner. Toward the other end, they ate rancid bacon, mountain sheep, red fox, and sometimes boiled hides. When they were dying of thirst, they drank mule urine. While 47 of the 87 members of the Donner Party were dying of hunger in 1846, there was some cannibalism. "What do you think I cooked this morning?" said Aunt Betsy Donner one day. "Shoemaker...
...Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon. You must lead your young and rose-cheeked sweetheart out into the wilderness. One day she sinks to the ground of hunger and thirst, and dies. You dig a grave with your hands and bury her in the sand and put up a cross of two straws that blow away at once. That is how to be a Mormon...