Word: thirsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter cartoon by David Low showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
Special features of the snappy roadster are leather upholstery, a tremendous thirst for water, and a gearshift mechanism that just right out of the dash board and whose design is exactly the opposite of the ordinary...
...pursuit of beauty, the attainment by "great souls" of the maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
Nabetari drifted on alone. He was very weak from hunger and thirst and exhaustion. The sail was blown away in a storm, and he did not know where he was going. He thought he was going...
Manhattan's huge Gimbels department store had big news and bought big ads to tell it: GIMBELS HAS NYLONS. Gimbels had 26,000 pairs-a tantalizing drop in the bucket in the face of the public's raging thirst. So, said Gimbels' ad: "Don't think we want to run this advertisement. . . . Come if you must. [But] we've taken this large space to point out how uncomfortable you will...