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...lifeboat afloat is Walter Slezak, the Nazi submarine commander. He orders the others to bale out the water. After the boat has been righted, Slezak is in command. He rows the boat with apparent ease toward a Nazi carrier. While the others are weary and sick with hunger and thirst, Slezak remains fresh and gay, singing German songs...
...were introduced to a form of torture which came to be known as the sun treatment. We were made to sit in the boiling sun all day long without cover. We had very little water; our thirst was intense. . . . The Japanese dragged out the sick and delirious. Three Filipino and three American soldiers were buried while still alive...
Last week Lou Diamond's peaceful, foamy world was threatened: the post-exchange staff was taking off its first day in months for a picnic, and no beer would be sold at Parris Island for a whole day. Lou's roars of outraged thirst reverberated through the battalions, reached the post exchange just in time. Eventually the picnic went off swimmingly with endless free beer. Special last-minute guest: Master Gunnery Sergeant Diamond...
...original purpose of serving salty items such as pretzels, peanuts and potato chips was to create a thirst. . . . With the whiskey shortage, this type of snack should definitely be eliminated...
This story is told so expertly, detail by detail, that the whole unlikely affair seems believable. More than that-it often approximates hard and honest facts about war and about people. In the routine war melodrama it is always an American prisoner who, faint with thirst, scornfully refuses to yield information while an enemy officer drinks his fill and tosses the surplus into the sand. Here, the situation is reversed. Sahara rings dozens of such changes on old formulas, and in their simple way they make more hard sense pictorially than most documentaries...