Word: thirsted
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...Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt complex over the death of his father...
...they had been turned out by one of Harvard's giant calculators after it had digested the properly punched slips. The play's major morals: 1) there is nothing wrong with marrying for money, 2) poor people are as tiresome as rich people, 3) all men thirst for God, whether he be called God or Hoochlipoochli...
Beer finds that he doesn't have to sell his subject to adults "who have an extraordinary thirst for knowledge; they come to learn what you have to say because they are interested in it." He feels that they are not just working to fulfill graduation requirements because their parents made them go to school...
...work up a real thirst, you can run in the five-mile marathon road race starting at 1:30. Then off to the Irish Club Center which opens its arms "even to Harvard...
...were as simple as that. We reckoned without that sudden Thirst for Knowledge. Classes take care of it first. They last all morning. Lunch he eats at school. Afternoons he spends in the library. Finally, hunger drives him home at dinnertime. He is ours, then, for one short half hour. But we are so busy feeding him we forget the score of things we have been saving up all day to tell...