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Word: thirsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavy Thought with the froth. What's worse, neither the comic nor dramatic possibilities of the clash between Tilly and Simon are fully exploited. In the end, the novel has no more sparkle than decarbonated soda water. But even flat soda can quench a summer day's thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Fizz | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...must design a foreign policy which will espouse and promote liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of people of the world. It must strengthen the democratic forces in other nations and not entrench reactionary interests that thirst for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A System That Works | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Gunfire. MacArthur had long ago learned Japanese ways of thinking. He knew the Japanese thirst for leaders and their love of idols. When he went into Japan in 1945, he capitalized on this knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Enlighten me, kind sir, let my thirst for knowledge be quenched-what is this "ootch-magootch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit is up to $5 but the College thirst for beer hasn't diminished. Wartime dissatisfaction with 3.2 sent veterans skipping back to the O.G. and to the jumbo they dreamed of overseas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

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