Word: thirsting
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Nabetari drifted on alone. He was very weak from hunger and thirst and exhaustion. The sail was blown away in a storm, and he did not know where he was going. He thought he was going...
Manhattan's huge Gimbels department store had big news and bought big ads to tell it: GIMBELS HAS NYLONS. Gimbels had 26,000 pairs-a tantalizing drop in the bucket in the face of the public's raging thirst. So, said Gimbels' ad: "Don't think we want to run this advertisement. . . . Come if you must. [But] we've taken this large space to point out how uncomfortable you will...
Beer and Belligerence. The Lincoln Courier is housed in a brick building on Courthouse Square, with a game room upstairs where thirsty printers can slake their thirst with beer. The Courier is belligerently Republican, more isolationist than the Chicago Tribune, if possible...
...thirsty for his oil. Eager applicants for concessions had been sitting around in Teheran for months. Least pressing perhaps was the U.S.: Washington's concern with declining reserves had not yet reached the stage where it called for the use of aggressive oil diplomacy in Iran. The British thirst was sharper. Dependent entirely on oil from abroad, Britain could not afford to pass up any opportunity. She had played the politics of oil longer, more successfully than anyone else. Now she was ready to play again...
...Biggest thirst of all was Russia's. Until World War II her production (some 240 million barrels a year) and her reserves (some six billion barrels) had been enough to cover her prodigious economy. (Twenty years ago she had not even bothered to exploit a Russian-controlled oil concession in northern Iran.) The war had taught her a burning lesson: when she came closest to losing her oil, she came closest to losing the war. Now the Red Army was grabbing oil in Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Austria-wherever and whenever it could. At home, Russia was stepping...