Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember, I went in with other war correspondents and war photographers before the entry of the British troops. There I distributed them around to some of the American missionaries and other Americans still left in the city who leaped upon them like people dying of mental starvation and thirst...
...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...
Riding in his command car Louisiana-bound with his division (45th) for war games, Major Sandy Goodman acquired a consuming thirst from Texas' boiling sun and dusty highways. He didn't mind saying so into his radio transmitter. Major General George V. Strong, 8th Corps commander, inspecting the march from an airplane, overheard, ordered his pilot to land. They picked up a carton of iced bottled drinks at a roadside stand, flew back to the line of march and dropped the carton by parachute close to the parched Major...
...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...
...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...