Word: thirst
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...anarchist, a distaste for violence prevented him from achieving important success. Desire for culture made him tour Europe and a thirst for more education made him come back and study post-graduate philosophy at Columbia University. Then he finds Ariel, a Jewish girl of 15, with whom he falls in love. They marry and find happiness in the pursuit of wisdom and the possession of love. A closing chapter, called "I Become A Daddy" announces, with infinite detail, the birth of a daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Durant...
...Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those audiences and make them return to quench again their thirst...
...Casey, representative of the American Federation of Labor, much impressed, said, pandering: "We in America boast of our great republic and our great democracy, but we must come to England, Scotland and Ireland to observe pure democracy and to sit down to quench our thirst with anything we like...
...presence of nearly 40,000 wild mustangs in eastern Oregon; 2) the scarcity of rain in that section; 3) the need of mustangs, however wild, for water-caused A. L. Cross, head of the Oregon Humane Society, to announce last week that several hundred mustangs had died of thirst, that thousands were nearing death. Humane Society officers urged that the suffering mustangs be slaughtered and their meat shipped to Europe...
...between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation was remedied. He noted that the other lace was not quite as it should be; leaned over; re-tied that one. After such exercise he felt uncontrollable thirst for soda pop. Purchasing a bottle from a passing vender, he sat down on the edge of the dugout; proceeded to swig politely, without haste...