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...government official who once worked on a temporary trial of prohibition in Bombay reported: "The first result of the experiment was a large increase in water consumption. Not because people were quenching their thirst on water. We found it was because people were taking more baths. A woman who had only one sari had not bothered to take a bath; but when her husband could no longer spend his money on toddy he would go out and buy his wife a second sari. She was then encouraged to take baths...
Gargantuan Thirst. Only one present type of airplane, the fast, short-range fighter, is well adapted to the jet engine, whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...
...Heavy Thought with the froth. What's worse, neither the comic nor dramatic possibilities of the clash between Tilly and Simon are fully exploited. In the end, the novel has no more sparkle than decarbonated soda water. But even flat soda can quench a summer day's thirst...
...must design a foreign policy which will espouse and promote liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of people of the world. It must strengthen the democratic forces in other nations and not entrench reactionary interests that thirst for power...
...Gunfire. MacArthur had long ago learned Japanese ways of thinking. He knew the Japanese thirst for leaders and their love of idols. When he went into Japan in 1945, he capitalized on this knowledge...