Word: thirsting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vacationing in Switzerland with his Queen Soraya, Iran's Shah cabled orders for all-out relief measures as reports trickled out of the devastated area describing the plight of rural survivors, whose perils included not only thirst, disease and famine, but packs of hungry, maddened wolves. The bodies of more than 2,000 Iranians have already been recovered, and aid teams have yet to reach most of the stricken area...
...more cogent argument for peaceful coexistence is that most readers' thirst for the printed word is only whetted by TV. It is likely that TV was a big factor in newspapers' gain of 1,000,000 circulation (to a record 57 million) last year. Los Angeles Times Editor L. D. Hotchkiss even credits his paper's saturation coverage of TV with helping to cure the summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While...
Under the new plan, the British army, which kept the peace east of Suez ("Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst") and bore the white man's burden to Fuzzy-Wuzzies and Gunga Dins, will be cut down to only 160,000 men, all regulars. The R.A.F., the few to whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced...
There was nothing particularly chauvinistic about Janos. His father, a mason, was the village socialist in the hamlet where Janos was born 26 years ago. What Janos got from his father was not patriotism but a thirst for knowledge. He was a thin, blond boy whose Roman nose was never out of a book. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 16, and this got him a scholarship to Budapest University...
...next 20 days, at Camp O'Donnell, 23,000 more died. Stewart's chronicle becomes a saga of almost miraculous survival in the face of starvation, brutality and the terrors of the mind. The high point of horror: the fetid hold of a Japanese transport where thirst-crazed prisoners, so tightly packed that they had to stand on their own dead, claw each other to death for a drink of blood...