Word: thirst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their endurance, and the overflow of wounded are waiting on the ground for their dressings to be changed. The water of the river in which bodies float can be filtered only in eyedropperfuls. There is just about enough water to give the men when they get delirious from thirst...
...This Tormented Land." One after another, the remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any civilized nation this side of the Iron Curtain . . . absolutely illegal. These men are not criminals. They are victims.This is a mockery...
...tonight runs true to form, a horde of undergraduates will crowd into 14 Plympton St. at 7:30 p.m. Exactly what draws them no one is quite sure: curiosity, thirst, and in most instances, the editors hope, interest in journalism...
bags of coffee, and last year, when it bought 20.5 million bags, the American thirst for coffee has grown tremendously...
...expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations of fugitive Cechs rolled over the U.S. border into Linz. Next stop: Earlham, Iowa (pop. 771), the home of Bedrich's daughter, Mrs. Ronald K. Brown...