Word: thirsting
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Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
Milk-starved undergraduates, who were forced to forego their accustomed number of glasses of milk at lunch and dinner yesterday, will be able to quench their thirst again as the University's milk supply returns to normal today, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, announced last night...
...Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. blew the dust off some rare old statistics on the state of the U.S. thirst. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits was 2.86 gallons in 1860, only 1.22 gallons...
...Hunger, Thirst & Bombs...
Your red-bordered article on atomic activity coming directly after and alongside [two articles headed] "Hunger, Unabated," and "Thirst, Unslaked" [TIME, Feb. 10] is masterly placement...