Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...
...sort of college application you'd generally expect to receive. But the llo'yoke Center-based African Scholarship Program of American Universities -- ASPAU --each year screens some 10,000 applications, many of them like this one, bespeaking a crying thirst for higher education which either may not be available in their country or which is unattainable because of poverty. ASPAU helps...
...Positive Thirst. Chief Reddin calls his predecessor "one of the greatest police administrators who ever lived." But Tom Reddin, he adds, "is a different fellow from William H. Parker." Reddin sees opportunity in "a community thirst for positive programs from law-enforcement people. We have to find a lot of things to be for rather than a lot of things to be against." The son of a New York millionaire who got rich running carnivals, Reddin was forced into optimism when his father lost every penny vainly drilling for oil in Oklahoma. A star student as well as a star...
...Detroit was out because it was too close to Chicago and the climate was not to Kelly's liking; Pittsburgh was no good because, in his estimation, it was not culturally ready. Suddenly, there it was: Dallas-hot climate, lots of loose money floating around, an unquenchable cultural thirst. Perfect. How could he fail to strike a gusher in the land of the big oilwell...
...professions named David Nation, who was occasionally a lawyer, doctor, journalist and innkeeper and chronically a failure, Carry went on the warpath. Commencing in the town of Medicine Lodge, Carry's hatchet proceeded to enforce the letter of the law wherever she found Hawkeyes slaking their thirst. It was her habit to spend the eve of battle walking around on her knees-a kinetic form of prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender...