Word: thirsting
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With his own mistakes Dixon has little patience. He bitterly regrets the times when, exhausted with thirst, hunger and desperation, with his clothes washed away to shreds and his skin a mess of huge sun blisters scaled with burning salt, he would lose control and scream at his companions. He confesses with shame that he was afraid to catch a passing shark with his bare hands. But he kept his strength of mind...
...steaming, grind-haunted reading room of Boylston, which has handed out books for years to History and Government students, will close for the second session, causing the industrious to seek elsewhere in their thirst for knowledge...
...hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...
Almost equidistant between two oceans, South Dakota has long been muffled in the wide spaces of its prairies, now green after the drought years. But today South Dakotans talk of the Battle of Burma, thirst after another raid on faraway Tokyo, seem less interested in the local issues which seem to dominate the campaign. The primary date...