Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until Dunster's 3-1 win, Eliot and previously unbeaten Lowell appeared headed for another showdown on the last day of the season. Last year Lowell bumped off Eliot in the final playoff game, 1-0, and made the Elephants thirst for revenge...
Oddly enough, Rock finds little happiness in Happenings, but he does develop a thirst. One drink leads to another, and the aftertaste leads him back to Scarsdale. Ultimately he learns that it takes more than a surgical retread to renew the inner man, which was perhaps obvious all along...
...Delicate Balance. A character in the new play with which Edward Albee opens the Broadway season is somewhat shocked to find himself drinking whisky before breakfast. Says another character reassuringly: "Think of it as very late at night." The lateness of the night, the thirst of the soul, the solitary anguish of the self-these have always been the prevailing mood winds of Albee's plays. But he cannot construct a credible plot in which to trap them, and he fails again in Balance...
Such is Lyndon Johnson's thirst for acclaim that he has had electronic devices installed in the presidential limousines so that he can drink in the applause of the populace as he drives by. He may soon need an amplifier. The Louis Harris poll reported last week that only 50% of the American public now endorses the President v. 83% in February 1964; the Gallup poll shows an 8% decline, from 56% to 48%, in two months...
...drenched health haven led to a land boom in the 1880s. The landlocked city enhanced its metropolitan status by reaching out 20 miles to annex San Pedro as an outlet to the Pacific. By 1900, the population exceeded 100,000, and when Los Angeles quenched its thirst with an aqueduct to the far-off Owens River Valley in 1913, its destiny was sealed. Los Angeles and its environs claimed well over 2,000,000 inhabitants by 1930. Having emerged after World War II as a center for the aviation and electronics industries, the burgeoning