Word: thirsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They expected rescue Tuesday, when the Indianapolis would become overdue at Leyte. But all through the day, planes flew nearby without spotting them. Thirst, salt water and sun swelled their tongues and split their lips. Their eyes throbbed...
...every five regular readers felt the lack enough to go to the printing plants, brave shouting picket lines and buy copies. Some newspapers printed box scores showing the city's growing thirst for news; the Daily News (normal weekday circ. 2,000,000) sold 135,000 copies on the seventh day of the strike, 500,000 a week later...
...once promenaded, now bore a sluggish parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...
...escaped the starvation of Jap prison camps were undernourished, struggling for a subsistence level of living. Only the Army's Philippines Civil Affairs Unit (nicknamed Pee-Cow) kept the city alive-it served hundreds of thousands of meals, set up water points to slake Manila's thirst...
...only 18-who died from salt water. They would foam at the mouth, a kind of cream-colored foam, and their tongues would curl, and swell up in their mouths and their lips turn inside out. A gunner's mate died from injuries. Four others died of thirst: they just went out of their heads-they didn't drink salt water...