Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convince us that under their hard shells his anti-heroes really do want desperately to believe. If not in politics or in love, (at least not for long), then in religion and the afterlife. The place they perpetually go in Greene's novels to quaff their spiritual thirst is the Catholic Church; and if their inability to take God seriously keeps them from having faith, at least they can while away their time feeling guilty. The most successful portrait Greene paints of this inward struggle for piety is in The Power and the Glory, a really quite accomplished short novel...
...been sleeping less than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants, and at night elephant herds have been known to lumber blindly through troop positions. But the main hazard is the growing number of guerrillas coming across the borders. Says one major: "No army has ever...
Sponsored by Prince Mohammed al Faisal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would...
...playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal is simplified, and distorted, by his thirst for revenge...
Perhaps the most famous Rhodesian military unit is the Selous Scouts (named for British Explorer Frederick Selous), a secret, mixed-race tracker group of about 300 men who are renowned for their ability to survive in the bush. If water is not available, they will slake their thirst by sucking moisture from the stomach of a slaughtered kudu, the graceful spiral-horned antelope. Black members of the Scouts have masqueraded as guerrillas in order to discover the political leanings of black villagers. Consequently, whenever the Salisbury government charges that innocent civilians have been tortured or murdered by guerrillas, the nationalists...