Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirst. In Seattle, a grocery clerk explained why he had stolen some $4,200 from his employer: "I like to drink beer...
Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...
...most cattlemen, feeding was only one of many trying problems. On the plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...
...gets most of its strength from the fact that its ideas are tied to no national policy. If the people who support it have any one common denominator, it is that their longing for peace is so strong as to upset reason and good sense. Their thirst for peace blinds them to the fact that the only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war. If a popular peace movement should really sweep the world, then peace might be at hand. But no popular movement can penetrate the Soviet fortress...
...turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...