Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great thirst attacked British troops rushing emergency landing strips to completion in the dust of Normandy. Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse. They wanted beer...
...Richard Acland (leader of Britain's Common Wealth Party). This "versatile adventurer would apparently stop at nothing in his thirst for political leadership. Now, in the autumn of 1942, he reappears, happily leading a jumble of discontented people who find the existing administration of British affairs unendurable. The jumble is called 'Common Wealth.' . . . His intelligence is very limited and unstable. He is as imitative as a monkey, any claptrap that seems to be popular goes into his bag and any 'religious' cant, and his ambition for 'leadership' is uncontrollable...
...through the Japanese lines. Handsome Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess (later killed in a West Coast airplane crash) survived that infamous march and escaped to tell the sickening story of how living soldiers were beheaded, or thrown into trenches and buried with the already dead; how Filipinos, dying of thirst, were shot as they wriggled on their bellies towards water; how a gutted soldier with bowels dangling was hung on barbed wire as an object lesson to those who would escape; how men who had dropped in the road were ground by the wheels of the Emperor's Ford...
...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...