Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received less than half the normal spring rainfall. The soft night lawns are brown crackling grist. The old swimming holes have evaporated...
There are several memorable scenes in the documentary that give us a strong feeling for the man, as when he performs in an empty theatre for a janitor sweeping the stage, or when a woman who knew him talks about his unquenchable thirst for Bugs Bunny cartoons...
Poor Jose Razo, for armed robbery did you thirst...
...five-foot tall replica will supply drinkable city water to thirsty Yardlings, said John Lach, Radcliffe's director of physical planning. A 10-second timer will simulate pumping action, negating the strenuous exercise once required to quench students' thirst...
...afford them, American rock videocassettes are a big favorite. Groups of young men, many of them draft dodgers, pool their money to buy video recorders. The regime's efforts to eradicate all Western influences, and especially such evils as music, dance and free speech, have spawned a thirst for whatever the Islamic republic denounces as sinful. Example: the continuing popularity of a satirical videotaped movie called Samad Becomes the Imam, featuring a goofy, rustic character who emerges as the supreme ruler of the Islamic state...