Word: thirsting
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...years there had been little change. Its "mission," as set forth in document, directive and memoranda, was still the same: to develop military character, physical fitness, and give a broad professional education. To this the current Secretary of the Academic Board, Captain Robert Morris, added tentatively: "And a thirst for knowledge of cultural subjects...
...told. It covered the familiar stories of lack of hospitals, lack of food and clothing, vermin-infested camps, corporal punishment of prisoners, death by decapitation of a U.S. airman on New Guinea, name not disclosed. (From Korea came a story of U.S. prisoners on Jap ships, crazed with thirst, biting their arms and drinking their own blood, perishing when the ships were bombed by U.S. planes...
They expected rescue Tuesday, when the Indianapolis would become overdue at Leyte. But all through the day, planes flew nearby without spotting them. Thirst, salt water and sun swelled their tongues and split their lips. Their eyes throbbed...
...every five regular readers felt the lack enough to go to the printing plants, brave shouting picket lines and buy copies. Some newspapers printed box scores showing the city's growing thirst for news; the Daily News (normal weekday circ. 2,000,000) sold 135,000 copies on the seventh day of the strike, 500,000 a week later...
...once promenaded, now bore a sluggish parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...