Word: thirsting
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...Editor Ellery Sedgwick of Atlantic Monthly; New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann. They and a handful of Harvard professors will select from each of the nation's six great regions at least one man. Only prerequisites: three years' experience, a Godspeed from the boss, a thirst for knowledge. When they go back to their jobs they will presumably be better equipped to serve them and their communities, generally raise the tone of the working press...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar...
...never die of thirst...
...nestled--in the foot-hills of Providence the famine in foot-ball victories has been of equal intensity and greater duration than it has up among us city folks in Cambridge. And on long winter nights the alumnie wolves can be heard starting their long quavering howls as they thirst for the blood of one Mr. Tuss McLaughry, coach for some time now at the Providence institution...
...emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...