Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remembered the episode, swung his legs over the arm of his chair, and went on, delighted. "That angered Arthur A. Houghton, class of 1928, who met with us afterwards in the bar of the Ritz in Boston, where we took him to assuage our anguish and his thirst. He was a very good ally, and I said that I would go out on a Middle Western and Eastern tour of various friends of the Harvard Library to raise the money, if he would go with...
...restraints are totally absent. Doors are never locked. There are no bars on the windows and virtually no rules. Spankings and scoldings are forbidden. Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl up in her arms, paint her breasts, endlessly scrub and sometimes kick her. They soon learn...
Snap-Away Lids. Whatever the ultimate dollars-and-cents value of the in novation to Alcoa, the announcement reflects the thirst for new markets that has kept the $1.38 billion-a-year com pany on top of the industry as the world's largest aluminum producer...
...present system of education has the capacity only to excite the thirst for knowledge, not to satisfy it," said His Holiness, spiritual adviser to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and 115,000 other meditators around the world...
...high school diploma by World War II. Now the day is fast approaching when some form of college-level learning will be the national norm-and the M.A. today carries little more prestige than the bachelor's degree did a few years ago. The burden of quenching this thirst for learning is being borne primarily by the nation's huge public systems of higher education, which are expanding facilities, establishing branches, and blanketing their states with new campuses in an unprecedented explosion of growth...