Word: thirsting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst. But the spontaneity seems a little forced, the pace, jokes and charm a little grimly predetermined...
...evils (due to "refusal to recognize the divine majesty") : ". . . immoderate and blind egoism, the thirst for pleasure, immodest and costly styles in dress . . . the lust for power, neglect of the poor, the flight from the land, levity in entering into marriage, divorce . . . birth control . . . neglect of duty to one's country...
...about 100 miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...
...worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason : successful newspapermen develop a competitive "thirst for power...
...quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...