Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damaged desalinization plant in Kuwait City and via pipelines and tanker trucks from Baghdad and Basra. So far, allied bombers have concentrated on higher-priority targets within Iraq, including mobile Scud missile launchers. But coalition leaders will soon focus on the supply lines, and remain confident that they can thirst out the Iraqis. Predicts one White House official: "They'll come out with their hands up, begging us for water...
Rumor has it that the Lampoon's thirst for destruction will continue long after the tree is gone. College administrators who turn the other way will regret not nipping vegicide at the bud. The 'Poonsters must be stopped...
...already / be history. If it were a matter of poverty, the answer would be better schools and more opportunity. Eliminating poverty is a moral imperative that should need no additional justification. But the vast majority of drug users are not desperately poor; many in fact are fabulously wealthy. Their thirst for drugs springs from some other source...
...education is to mean anything, it should mean that we have an appreciation of the fact that everyone needs to be educated," Henderson said. "Therefore, when presented with an opportunity to help a group of people whose thirst for education is great, but whose government essentially denies them this opportunity, we should do whatever we can to quench that thirst...
...quench their thirst and stave off dehydration, U.S. troops in the 120 degreesF Saudi Arabian desert must drink up to 8 gal. of water a day. Much of the vital liquid comes from local bottled well water that is cumbersome to transport...