Word: thirsting
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...cagey politician who is given to spouting fractured French ("La ou il y a de I'homme, il y a de I'hommerie"), and making resounding promises ("The thirst for a better state itches us"), the abbé likes to foretell "tomorrows that sing...
...Wagon Train, Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond), sometime Union cavalry officer, can be forgiven his aplomb. He has been tangling with oddballs ever since he started his first trek out of St. Joseph, Mo. a year ago last September, headed for Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed over as a slave...
...destruction for wood panels. It overlooks a deeply lit sanctum of well worn opulence. A recording of Verdi's Requiem rested upon one of two pianos. Copies of The Reporter and other magazines of contemporary interest covered a large center table. Aesthetics and history have both impassioned B.B., whose thirst for knowledge has been watered by immense energy. But Berenson's soul is of a renaissance tint and its tempo, plus, of course, the weight of his convictions, has led him to declare, "I pity you because you must live in this age of decadence and despair...
...been that his thirst for education took him to England six years ago, Patrick Matimba, 26, might have had quite an ordinary life as just one more Negro making out as best he could under the segregation laws of his native Southern Rhodesia. But. at an interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute...
...said to have his price, so every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told him. With obscene thoroughness, they used not only electric shocks but the torturer's ancient weapons of fire and water, fists and boots, terror and thirst. As the first day of torment faded into night, Alleg crawled onto the mattress on the stone floor of his cell, only to find that it was filled with barbed wire...