Word: thirsting
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...regime has lost power but the conquerors have not yet completely arrived. Fueling these fears were the horror stories of the panic and flight from the north. Almost every refugee-laden barge that pulled into a southern port brought its own cargo of the dead-victims of starvation, exposure, thirst or the shootings of renegade soldiers...
...have so much blood on our hands out there. Why do we thirst for more...
...East's October war presents some internal problems for Saudia Arabia. No one appreciates those problems more than somber King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud. Even as OPEC oil, of which Faisal's reserves constitute the largest share, rocks Western economies, the West's relentless thirst for petroleum is in turn forcing far-reaching modernization on Faisal's desert kingdom. Faisal has faced no greater quandary since he displaced his inept half brother Saud from the throne in 1964. At that time, hard as it may be to believe today, his country was unable...
...first important journalists to knock Kissinger, and in recent months he has scorched the Secretary's negotiating tactics in Foreign Policy, deplored his obfuscation of aspects of the SALT talks in the Columbia Journalism Review, and accused him of everything from sabotaging democracy in Chile to possessing "a thirst for applause and adulation that can brook no questioning or criticism" in New York magazine...
...shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...