Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East's October war presents some internal problems for Saudia Arabia. No one appreciates those problems more than somber King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud. Even as OPEC oil, of which Faisal's reserves constitute the largest share, rocks Western economies, the West's relentless thirst for petroleum is in turn forcing far-reaching modernization on Faisal's desert kingdom. Faisal has faced no greater quandary since he displaced his inept half brother Saud from the throne in 1964. At that time, hard as it may be to believe today, his country was unable...
...first important journalists to knock Kissinger, and in recent months he has scorched the Secretary's negotiating tactics in Foreign Policy, deplored his obfuscation of aspects of the SALT talks in the Columbia Journalism Review, and accused him of everything from sabotaging democracy in Chile to possessing "a thirst for applause and adulation that can brook no questioning or criticism" in New York magazine...
...Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale. "A country that doesn't want to live in chaos has to establish a tradition of law." While the Bible extols mercy, it also demands justice and honors those who seek it?those who, in the words of the Sermon on the Mount, "hunger and thirst for righteousness." If every wrongdoer deserved unlimited mercy, police could not arrest murderers, district attorneys could not prosecute slumlords, and ombudsmen like Ralph Nader could not attack the shoddy practices of Industry...
...shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
...setting is an English coal-mining town. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are joining them to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw (Donald Ewer) has gone down into the coalpits for 49 years. He has a lung-dusty cough, a ready thirst and a powerful conviction that he has saved his boys from the red-brick slavery of a Midlands industrial warren...