Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thirst for Great Lakes Water
...live in what Michigan Governor William Milliken scornfully dubs the "parch-belt": the water-poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
...owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another, smaller book could...
Last July, about 90 Haitians died from hunger, thirst and exposure while trying to reach America. Last October, the bodies of 26 drowned Haitians washed up on a Florida beach. Of the refugees that made it to the United States in 1981, 8023 were jailed. Meanwhile, as expressed in a pamphlet by a Boston-area Haitian organization...
...task for philosophers, Marx said, is not to interpret the world, but to change it. As Hickok never pretends to philosophy, there can be no faulting her unwillingness to call for change. What a reader finds in her reporting, instead, might prove more enduring. With her sensitivity, her thirst for detail, and above all, her sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers...