Word: thirst
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...place was quiet inside, but the drive-through was bustling, and service was a tad slow. I busied myself preparing my Coke and was impressed by the expansive diameter of the straws - excellent for quenching a powerful thirst like the one had I built up in a hectic, bleary morning. After five or 10 minutes, my number, 99, was called. I was supplied generously with all the ketchup I needed for my fries, and took my red plastic tray over to an out-of-the-way-table...
...place was quiet inside, but the drive-through was bustling, and service was a tad slow. I busied myself preparing my Coke and was impressed by the expansive diameter of the straws - excellent for quenching a powerful thirst like the one had I built up in a hectic, bleary morning. After five or 10 minutes, my number, 99, was called. I was supplied generously with all the ketchup I needed for my fries, and took my red plastic tray over to an out-of-the-way-table...
...once knew a Jekyll-and-Hyde alcoholic who, when sober, might walk for months in the sunshine of his good intentions and sanctimony, a paragon, one of the most respected citizens in town. But inevitably, one day, the thirst would descend upon him and he would revert to the piggy-eyed, spittle-spraying ranter we knew. He always returned to his dark side...
...billing, there is hardly a page in Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (Johnson Publishing Co.; 652 pages; $35) that won't rile Lincoln's defenders. To start with, says Bennett, Lincoln was a crude bigot who habitually used the N word and had an unquenchable thirst for blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes. He supported the noxious pre-Civil War "Black Laws," which stripped African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped to free soil...
...Existing publications claim that they target a national audience of university students, covering pop culture and other "hip" topics. The Current knows that many of us thirst for substantive, exciting coverage of the issues that we care about delivered in a sexy, humorous manner...