Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force, and that Singapore Island had only four good fields. They knew how tightly packed are the buildings and docks of the Naval Base right across the Strait from Johore, and therefore what squatting ducks of a target they would make. They knew that the island's thirst would have to be slaked from two secondary rain-catching reservoirs-the kind blasted at Hong Kong...
...Singapore is not so well prepared. Most of its big guns are concentrated on the seaward side, not opposite the Malay Peninsula. Its main reservoir of water is across the Strait in Johore and although there are emergency reservoirs on the island itself, the Jap might be able to thirst out the city's 600,000 inhabitants. This week the enemy was within 40 miles of the main water supply...
...powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...
...Berlin radio attributed his death to an "airplane accident on Monday, the eleventh," said he died en route to a hospital. Reports from Vichy said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph of him alive, as approved by the censor, showed a bald, grim, tight-lipped man looking considerably older than his 45 years...
...desert some of our British armored-car men were lost and dying of thirst and starvation. . . . They were in terribly bad condition. Balbo, who was of impulsive and generous nature, heard of their plight and got into a bombing plane, took an escort of two fighters and personally flew to the rescue of these British soldiers. Having picked them up, he flew the troops to an Italian hospital, then started back to Tobruk; his head quarters...