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When a candidate for Governor of Mississippi threatened to "lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with...
Mackenzie King's temperance edict-issued under his emergency war powers-was ordered in the name of total war (he talked of savings in manpower efficiency and scarce newsprint). But he also complained that Canadian thirst had increased since the war began: pre-war consumption of spirits had risen from 3,500,000 gallons yearly to almost 5,000,000; wine consumption had increased by nearly 1,000,000 gallons...
Farewell to Arms. Bedouin tribesmen, darting out of the desert, pawed over the battlefields, scampered off with bulging sacks. Among the living wreckage were those who, hopelessly cut off from supplies and reinforcements, disheartened, parched with thirst, had chosen to give up. Among these were sullen pilots of the Luftwaffe who had been flying on the Russian front only a few days before, Italians carrying knapsacks and suitcases, glad that the fighting was over. The half dead and the wounded the British loaded into trucks and carted back to the suddenly overwhelmed hospitals of Cairo...
...number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper package, fruit bars for a touch of tartness, the cigarets as "morale builder-uppers." Most vexing current problem : finding a thirst-quencher satisfactory under all conditions...
...postulates of the Atlantic Charter are not mere phrases written on paper. We have faith in the statesmen who signed them. And in support of these statesmen are the peoples who, like our own, thirst for a better order of things, a better democracy and a better world...