Word: thirst
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...same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead was lighthearted German Cornejo. Dead was his 17-year...
...headquarters were the "thirst emporiums" on the Right Bank, and rare was the visiting fireman in Paris who missed him. Night in & out the indestructible little columnist organized his "death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author...
...Said the Sparrow: "Where do you get that stuff?" and kept going. The guard called a Nazi officer. But the officer, too, was an "old pal"-they had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. So together he and the Sparrow toured what was left of the old "thirst emporiums...
...young people have a great American thirst to improve themselves. They are the nouveaux riches of culture, fond of words like "whence," "whereof" and "elucidate." A beautiful word like "osculation" serves Bella the double purpose of showing both learning and gentility...
Winston Churchill was certainly conscious of the scene's aptness. This was a week in which all Britain was holding its breath. It was a week in which, to assuage the public thirst for revenge, the Government and R.A.F. had sanctioned a furious incendiary raid on Berlin, along whose Unter den Linden proud establishments like the State Opera and Prussian State Library were fired. It was a week in which the Germans began to talk again, loudly and confidently, of invading the British Isles. It was also a week in which Coventry had been blasted "worse than Coventry...