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...inspector in Hamburg last week was making his rounds of freight cars on a siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
...light trickling through two tiny knotholes, was completely dark. There was no room for the fugitive to sit or lie down; all he could do was crouch on the metal plate at the base of the machine. He had read in a book on Yoga that meat increases thirst, so all he took with him for what he estimated would be a six-day trip was four bottles of water and two loaves of dry bread...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...enough for an entire indoor football field and though its football team is rapidly rising to the top of the Big Ten, the university's interests on the whole lie elsewhere. "Unless there is a spirit of learning here," said President Jessup, "unless there is a genuine thirst for knowledge, unless there is a hunger for education, nothing worthwhile will happen...
...Executive Suite was being billed by any other name, largely because the American meaning of the title has no exact equivalent in any European language. Translated examples: in France, The Tower of the Ambitious Ones; in Holland, The Top Man; in Sweden, A Chair Is Vacant; in Italy, Thirst for Power; in Germany, The Schemers...