Word: thirsted
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...There is no doubt that the BSO had the power to fill Symphony Hall with its rich sounds, but their full potential was not reached. The concluding fugue closed on a clean note that left the listener’s thirst for an impassioned performance unquenched...
...There is, of course, no romance in pain. An acknowledgement of the environmental movement’s losers is not about laying claim to a certain brand of sexy radicalism and it is not about venting a moralistic and paternalistic thirst for power. Neither is it about identifying an enemy for a rhetorical and performative assault. It is, instead, about being honest when it comes to what, exactly, people are going to have to sacrifice in order to build an environmentally responsible society...
...exploration and drilling in numerous developing countries from Ecuador to Angola, whose economies have surged along with the oil prices. "OPEC needs to see China maintain its rate of growth," Robert Johnston, energy director for the Eurasia Group in Washington said before the OPEC meeting. Without China's continued thirst for new oil, OPEC production cuts will have a limited impact...
...Saturday and St. Francis University yesterday.The team returned to Blodgett for the first time since Oct. 1, looking to put a winless streak on the road behind it.Harvard (3-10, 2-4 ECAC) came into this weekend parched for a win, and it was able to quench this thirst immediately, earning a victory against the formidable Knights, 14-6.“It’s just good to finally have a W,” Connolly said.Indeed, while overcoming Queens had little implication for the playoffs, the Crimson desperately needed a shift in momentum as the regular season draws...
...killing the Dead Sea, which, without replenishment from the Jordan, is being reduced in depth about a meter a year. And it is helping decimate Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank--home to some of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities--which are slowly dying of thirst without access to the river or the authority to dig their own wells...