Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amid the ruins, mourning and humiliation which had submerged Germany, I felt my sense of distrust and severity fade within me. I even glimpsed possibilities of understanding which the past had never offered. Moreover, it seemed to me that the same sentiment was dawning on our soldiers. The thirst for vengeance which had spurred them on at first had abated as they advanced across the ravaged earth. I saw them merciful before the misery of the vanquished...
...still other men in work clothes and business suits. Which is O.K., up to a point, since TV or any other medium bereft of enlightenment will justifiably fade into oblivion . . . But how long is it since TV has unearthed a new and glamorous femme star to slake the thirst of the aforementioned viewer in quest of relaxation? . . . Occasionally the sought-after glamor in the form of white tie, tails, ballroom scenes and pretty dolls will show up on a Garry Moore show or a Perry Como episode, but, by and large, whether it's new public affairs...
...undiluted love, would be denied the advantage of an educated mother at a time when they are learning a language and seeking outlets for creative expression. Many young mothers would attend to their dreary home chores without the companionship of the good things for which they acquired a thirst in college...
...remains to wonder whether this can be consistent with what makes a successful university president: "The ability to project a personality that quickens a spiritual and intellectual thirst for excellence in one's colleagues...
...being he calls god with a contemptuous small g. God, says Ahasuerus, separates man from the divine, from the sacred spring. "To god I do not kneel-no, and I never will. But I would gladly lie down at the spring to drink from it-to quench my thirst, my burning thirst for what I cannot conceive of, but which I know exists. And perhaps that is what I'm doing now. Now that the battle is over at last and I may die. Now that at last I have won peace...