Word: thirsting
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...left among the dead for two days, dying of thirst, when at last a Hindu battalion of the Indian Army visited our village and rescued me. I insist revenge be taken on these traitors and brutes. We ought to declare war on Pakistan...
...stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
Command Decision (by William Wister Haines; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) had several critics waist-deep in adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...
...percent of the people of Oxford had diabetes. Of these, nearly half (30 people) had no idea that they were diabetics. A majority were in comparatively late stages of the disease, with acute but unrecognized symptoms (cramps in the arms & legs, loss of weight, intense itching, fatigue, overeating, unusual thirst...
...gods were thirsty. To water the land, and to control the temperamental waters of the Kosi River in Bihar Province, the Indian Government planned the world's highest dam (730 ft.). But many a simple villager thought the plans for the dam would simply sharpen the thirst of the gods for human blood...