Word: thirsted
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Philip Teitelbaum, assistant professor of Psychology, is currently attempting to determine the mechanism in the brain that causes the sensations of hunger and thirst. Since psychologists know what area of the brain controls these sensations, he has surgically removed various sections of this area in the brains of experimental rats...
Onstage, Callas' thirst for personal acclaim is insatiable. She grabs solo curtain calls whenever she can, even after another singer's big scene. Backstage in Rome. Basso Boris Christoff once seized her with one big paw, forced her to stand still. "Now. Maria," he decreed, "either we all go out there together, or nobody goes out." Tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano says: "I'm never going to sing opera with her again, and that's final." Said a close acquaintance: "The day will come when Maria will have to sing by herself...
This, as Happy's acquaintances see it, is just as Happy wants it. With Wetherby downed, Kentucky may have a G.O.P. Senator in the capital, but it will also have Chandler at home, brewing a political case of sour mash to quench his senatorial thirst for Cooper's seat...
...That thirst for knowledge which causes man to seek what lies in the heart of hurricanes and harridans had sent a U.S. B50 typhoon reconnaissance plane flying up into the thickest of the weather with 16 men aboard. Somewhere in Emma's maw the B50 broke radio contact and was never heard or seen again. Emma whipped on, toward Soviet Sakhalin...
...from some distant sea. Some of the finds contain carbon and can be dated by radioactive carbon 14. When this has been done, and when scholars have studied the drawings and artifacts, a history of a sort can be written of the fertile river plateau that slowly died of thirst after the glaciers melted...