Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
With his own mistakes Dixon has little patience. He bitterly regrets the times when, exhausted with thirst, hunger and desperation, with his clothes washed away to shreds and his skin a mess of huge sun blisters scaled with burning salt, he would lose control and scream at his companions. He confesses with shame that he was afraid to catch a passing shark with his bare hands. But he kept his strength of mind...
...steaming, grind-haunted reading room of Boylston, which has handed out books for years to History and Government students, will close for the second session, causing the industrious to seek elsewhere in their thirst for knowledge...