Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst. -Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay
...tune with the times." The times have not been kind to bourbons and rye blends, which are often the preference of a breed that seems to be vanishing-the men who take their tots neat. Though both types of whisky continue to rank first in the thirst of U.S. drinkers, their appeal is diminishing. Vodka, the quintessential light drink, with little flavor and less aroma, is becoming increasingly popular. Scotch and Canadian blenders have also profited by promoting their products' lightness...
...expansion has been reinforced by the nation's rising thirst for wines, especially, say wine merchants, among young adults who reject the martini-zonked image of their parents. U.S. wine consumption has increased by 60% since 1960, five times as fast as population growth. Sales gained 10% in 1969 and another 13% last year, to 265 million gallons. Wine makers are particularly heartened because Americans have taken to drinking wine with meals. For the first time since Prohibition, table wines in 1969 outsold sweet wines such as sherry, port and muscatel in the U.S. California produces...
Later, in a formal living room once the main set of a CBS documentary, "Hunger, U. S. A.," Mayer wiped a squash stain from his suit and showed me the bound volumes of his 400 published articles on the human hunger and thirst mechanisms, and his definitive book on obesity. Above the mantel piece hung a portrait of his father Andre in World War I uniform. The soldier of the portrait was the first scientist to relate human behavior to measurable physiological changes. Although the son Jean studied history and philosophy as a 17-year-old senior at the University...
...dead. "God is my witness," said Arafat in a letter to Arab heads of state. "A massacre has been committed. Thousands of people are under the debris. Bodies have rotted. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. Our dead are scattered in the streets. Hunger and thirst are killing our remaining children, women and old men." Only reluctantly did the guerrillas agree at week's end to a cease-fire arranged by Sudanese Strongman Jaafar Numeiry and pressed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo (see following story). The truce had hardly taken effect before Numeiry and other Arab leaders...