Word: thirst
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...tribesmen were easy to spot in the bare sands. Machine guns chattering, the planes made pass after pass. They did not stop until every camel was dead. "Without their camels," said a French spokesman at headquarters,"the surviving Shamba. if there are any, will die of thirst in the desert...
...that has been advanced for curtailment is that students with dates will drink less if thrown out of their rooms at eight-thirty, and thus there will be less reckless driving and general unpleasantness around the Square. This is a curious thesis. Surely there cannot be many students whose thirst is markedly affected by the doings of eighty muscular young men on the other side of the river six hours previously. At least, it is equally likely that students, with only the alternatives of a House Dance or something more expensive, will choose to go without Saturday dates and drink...
Integrity v. Thirst. Jimmy had some actual opponents for the job, but they were feeble and halfhearted. Chief among them: Chicago Teamsters Tom Haggerty and Bill Lee. Trying at first to campaign on moral grounds, Haggerty opened campaign headquarters in the gargantuan Fontainebleau Hotel, dispensed several cases of liquor before he discovered that the Teamster delegates were less morally indignant over Hoffa's actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful...
...nameless rock he has no bun and no penny. As he slowly goes mad from hunger while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...
...venture. Seizing on this episode and the surrounding legends, Author White sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds up to a masterly impression: a surrealist landscape of dead trees, the hallucinations of men dying of thirst and hunger, and the trancelike thoughts of nomad aborigines merged into a crude but forceful design like the bark paintings of the aborigines themselves...