Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was not the first time Gorbachev had used a rival's thirst to his own advantage, according to Fridrich Neznansky, who emigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1978 and who, by his own account, attended Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped...
...Soviet Union, it uses the achievements of foreign science and technology in a much more modest way. Those selling the idea of the U.S.S.R. allegedly being consumed with thirst for U.S. technology forget who they are dealing with and what the Soviet Union is today. Having won technological independence after the Revolution, it has long been enjoying the status of a great scientific and technological power. This enabled us to blaze the trail in space and to undertake space research on a large scale, to acquire a reliable defense potential and to successfully develop the country's productive forces. Incidentally...
...brassworks for the fireplace"). But even with that statuette, one suspects that Spielberg would still be restless. He would still crave those moments when he can spin amazing stories for himself, his kid sisters and a world of children in the dark. To demand that he revoke his inexhaustible thirst for wonder would be like asking Dickens to be Dreiser, or Peter Pan to settle down and become complacent old Mr. Darling...
Lonesome Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...
...asks for a couple of Scotches over lunch," she says. Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Rudulph tested several exotic new nonalcoholic tipples like Boncontent, a concoction of kiwi fruit and mineral water, and orange-flavored Perrier, as well as countless bottles of water. Concludes Rudulph: "Still water is the best thirst quencher, and flavored water is better for you than soft drinks...