Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boldly attempted to rescue their organization's chief of staff, Sean MacStiofáin, who had been arrested the week before, convicted as a member of an illegal organization and sentenced to six months in prison (TIME, Dec. 4). MacStiofáin promptly went on a hunger and thirst strike to protest his imprisonment, and was taken to Dublin's rambling old Mater Hospital for treatment...
Then came the deflating anticlimax. As he prepared to receive Communion from a priest, MacStiofáin broke his thirst strike. The Rev. Sean McManus, an old friend who had flown in from Baltimore after MacStiofáin was arrested, said he found the I.R.A. leader "shaking, on the point of death" from a heart seizure and crying deliriously, "I love Ireland, I belong to Ireland, God give us freedom!" McManus pleaded with MacStiofáin to relent. "If you die tonight," said the priest, "I am convinced there will be serious trouble in the South of Ireland." A moment...
...would starve himself to death unless released. It did not seem to be an idle threat. In the past half century five I.R.A. men have sought martyrdom by continuing a hunger strike to the agonizing end. MacStiofáin was on the seventh day of his hunger and thirst strike when he was carried into court on a chair. Weak, barely able to speak, he sat wrapped in blankets; a prison doctor, who periodically revived MacStiofáin, told reporters later that the I.R.A. chief could barely last three or four more days...
...evening Kosygin approved the outlines of last week's deal. It was not the first time that Kendall had scored by going to the top of the Soviet hierarchy. In 1959, Kendall set his corporate star rising by persuading Nikita Khrushchev to down a Pepsi to slake the thirst he had worked up during a "kitchen debate" with Richard Nixon at a U.S. exposition in Moscow...
Kendall should have no trouble developing a Pepski generation in the Soviet Union. Russians already are copious gulpers of sweetened, carbonated fruit waters (common flavors: apple and cherry). In addition, they like a thirst quencher called kvass, which is made from dark bread and has about the same color as Pepsi-but tastes nothing like it at all. Aside from whatever profits PepsiCo makes on the deal, it may carry one other happy benefit. The droves of U.S. businessmen going to Moscow may be able to sip something during their negotiations other than the ever-present mineral water...