Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen), son of John (Jack Albertson) and Nettie Cleary (Irene Dailey), has come home safe from World War II. Curt with one another, the parents both love the son and engage in a competition for his affections. But the boy has come back with a stubborn thirst to be his own man. In petty and profounder ways, things go wrong...
...modern equivalent of Christ's miracle of multiplication. Eventually, 85 billion gallons of water a year will flow through Israel's 154-mile network of pipelines, channels, siphons and tunnels. It will replenish the overexploited water table of the citrus-growing central plains, slake the thirst of existing Negev settlements, and provide enough water to sustain some 15,000 new families in the desert. But, momentous as the plan may be to Israel's future, the government last week went to great pains to play it down. In the nation's biggest newspaper, the afternoon tabloid...
...site of a brewhouse that may have slaked the thirst of Henry VIII, Speculator George Downing built a row of houses whose shallow timber foundations sank readily into the squishy soil of what had once been an island. What remains of Downing's houses on his narrow street across from government offices at Whitehall are Nos. 10, 11 and 12, all interconnected to make a warren of 200 rooms...
...Passion of Josef D. Paddy Chayefsky has changed butchers; his Josef Stalin is a Marty with fangs. It is Chayefsky's notion in this play that Stalin can best be understood as a brute with an unquenchable thirst for the Absolute. Beginning as a divinity student in a Tiflis Orthodox seminary, Stalin lost his belief in God. According to Chayefsky, Stalin was further desolated and left with a desperate sense of meaninglessness when his first wife died agonizingly. As a Bolshevik revolutionary, he found new meaning in life; in Lenin he found...
Untapped Spring. Perrier's thirst is not yet satisfied. It is now building ultramodern bottling plants to turn out even more mineral water: one at Thonon on Lake Geneva and the other at Montigny-le-Bretonneux, 15 miles from Paris, where a subterranean spring is almost directly beneath the plant...