Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are also reminders of the first encounters with that grisly ailment of the atomic age, so puzzling to its initial victims, known as radiation sickness. Among the early signs: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever and diarrhea. By the second week, hair began to fall out, the gums became painfully swollen, the white-blood-cell count fell sharply. Severe exposure usually meant death. Lethal rays did not always come directly from the blasts. The explosions produced some 200 different isotopes, most of them radioactive, with varying half-lives. Days after the bombs fell, survivors were exposed...
...nothing can withstand the relentless oil thirst of the "Outside." Yet the Pyrrhic stand has its effect: progress is stopped long enough for the reader to appreciate the value of natural Utopias-and a fiction that salutes them...
...calms continued. We could not have reduced our allowance of water for already we had not sufficient to keep our mouths in moisture. We frequently applied salt water to our parched lips with the hope to quell the fever that raged there but that only served to increase our thirst so much that some were compelled to seek relief in their own urine. Our sufferings during these hot days almost exceed belief. Some of the men were induced to hang themselves over the side of the boat into the sea to cool their bodies and it was with the utmost...
...Israeli leaders truly wish a peaceful life for their people they should stop their unwarranted thirst for land and learn to live with native Palestinians and Arab neighbors. This would give them time to improve their ailing economy and stop being a burden...
...that process, he urged that the ban on U.S. aid to Pakistan be lifted. Pakistan, which borders on Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, is prohibited from receiving American economic and military aid because of its nuclear armament program. A guarantee of regional security, he argued, would lessen Pakistan's "thirst" for its own nuclear weapons...