Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gingham curtains, fake wooden beams, simulated carriage lamps, leatherette settees and plastic flowers. The menu has remained basically fowl, emphasizing chicken in several forms, with a few excursions into wurst and schnitzel. The birds are heavily laced with salt and paprika, which tends to give customers a powerful thirst. Jahn's cash registers thus tinkle along with sales of wine and beer...
...seems like a dream that in July I was lying on the floor of a punishment cell in a work camp called Bautzen in the Communist half of Germany (G.D.R.), where I was (I thought at the time) slowly starving and dying of thirst. Yet now I am in the academic world of Cambridge finishing my Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at MIT after being a guest of the East German state for two years--fourteen months at the top secret security interrogation prison MFS Hohenschonhausen (East Berlin) and eight months a la Solzhenitsyn at the work camp Bautzen near...
...rushed up to Berlin where Wolfgang Vogel sped us James Bond style in his pastel blue Mercedes across a secret checkpoint to transfer us to black State Department limousines with British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple of mugs of dark Bavarian beer...
...incentives within a Communist frame- work, has run into a severe inflationary problem. Despite a partial price and wage freeze last December, the cost of living is now rising at an annual rate of about 14%. A 20% devaluation of the dinar early this year failed to quench the thirst for foreign goods or boost Yugoslav exports. As a consequence, Yugoslavia has a trade deficit of $1.2 billion, with a gross national product of only $14 billion. Two large invisible assets, however, help close the actual payments gap. Foreign tourists bring Yugoslavia some $400 million, while...
...party's antiMarket majority and its vocal pro-Marketeers, he cannot hope to please everyone. As Harold Lever, an ardently pro-Market M.P., put it: "Poor Harold Wilson! If he drank the water, it was poisoned. If he didn't drink, he'd die of thirst...