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...escaped the starvation of Jap prison camps were undernourished, struggling for a subsistence level of living. Only the Army's Philippines Civil Affairs Unit (nicknamed Pee-Cow) kept the city alive-it served hundreds of thousands of meals, set up water points to slake Manila's thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackened Pearl | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...only 18-who died from salt water. They would foam at the mouth, a kind of cream-colored foam, and their tongues would curl, and swell up in their mouths and their lips turn inside out. A gunner's mate died from injuries. Four others died of thirst: they just went out of their heads-they didn't drink salt water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Perils of the Sea | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

After the race, his chubby French wife straightened his bow tie and Frenchy filled the ten-inch-across gold cup with water so that Happy Issue might quench her well-earned thirst. That evening, a dozen celebration guests straw-sipped champagne from the cup-and glowed with hopes for Happy Frenchy in the Santa Anita Handicap, scheduled to be run again March 3 for the first time since Pearl Harbor. A week later, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes ruled racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six-Figure Hunch | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lady and the Bear | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Scottish distilleries have made no whiskey since war began, but in Britain, the Empire, North & South America the thirst for Scotch has grown bigger & bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Low Spirits | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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