Word: thirsting
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...Nope, I don't think having beer will stop the Harvard thirst--except maybe to get them warmed up for the real stuff. But I'm sorry about those mugs. There's not even a tea cup here...
...fight the town pool-hall gang. It wasn't all beer they had inside 'em then either! Then there were real riots--gness we won't see many more of those. Well, we'll have beer again soon. But take it from me, beer never has drowned a Harvard thirst...
...passage of the Congressional beer bill is an event which should not pass into the limbo of Government 1. That the nation may soon quench 3.2 per cent of its inordinate thirst, spurs the the interested observer to inquire whether the movement will spread to the House dining halls. Much water, not unmixed with nobler elements, has passed under the bridge since the University last dispensed larger with magnificent indifference. Whether she can recapture the first fine careless rapture of pre-Volsteadian days is, of course, another question...
...Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...
Success Story (By John Howard Lawson; Group Theatre, producer). Sol Ginsberg had an insatiable thirst for success. When he first went to work for the advertising firm, he knew what he wanted. After he had ousted his gentile boss, spurned the boss's secretary who loved him and married the boss's mistress, he was sated, did not know what to do with himself next. The secretary settles that for him by shooting him dead...