Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early stages of use are characterized by abrupt changes of mood and behavior, such as loss of interest in school, dates, sports and other activities, truancy, carelessness about personal appearance. Also by unusual seclusiveness, frequent talking or reading about drugs, loss of appetite, increased thirst, constipation. While "high," a user may act drowsy or intoxicated or show a lack of concern for pain. The pupils of his eyes may contract to pinpoints...
That is the beginning of a new movie called The Ballad of Cable Hogue and, truth to tell, there is not much more of a plot after that. Cable (Jason Robards) stubbornly battles thirst and wins, discovering a water hole in the desert. He stakes a claim, swears revenge on his two partners (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner...
...trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...
...nation's thirst for Cold Duck began to rise last August. The product's popularity quickly spread from California to Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York, from downtown to affluent suburbs. Last week some New Jersey stores ran out of the concoction entirely. Whether they were moved by the fad or frugality, New Year's revelers decided that Cold Duck was just the tipple with which to see out the inflationary old year and toast in the uncertain...
Many other blue-chip companies have lost their historic appeal to big investors, partly because their growth prospects look small, and partly because of young brokers' thirst for quick gains. Under the circumstances, better news than any rise in the Dow may be that the Big Board's composite average and the S & P 500 have each gained 1% in the past two weeks...