Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Admittedly, not even the most rabid sociobiologists contend that babies pop out of the womb with a thirst for bank robbing. Rather, they say, a constellation of influences leads to a life of crime, among them poverty, maleness and a trait known as "impulsivity," presumably caused by bad brain chemistry, caused in turn by bad genes. What, you may ask, is impulsivity? The standard answer tends to involve people who can't control their emotions or who get into bar fights. A study conducted in Finland found that men so characterized tend to be deficient in the brain hormone serotonin...
...they do this? The official reason given by these Black student organizations goes something like this: "We want to celebrate our cultural heritage," or "To satisfy our thirst for Black history...
...might call the affair Wounded Knee, if that name weren't already taken by some trifling affair involving the loss of several human lives. But the Kerrigan-Harding incident has proven that the American press and public, their thirst for blood slaked on the ubiquitous undercurrent of random violence, have decided that mere carnage is not sufficient qualification for an enduring spot in the news and popular imagination...
What explains such dedication? An unrelenting work ethic? An unquenchable thirst for knowledge? Or Harvard Dining Services' mouthwatering holiday menu...
...going to be hell. When it comes to a literal fire, I don't preach it because I'm not sure about it. When the Scripture uses fire concerning hell, that is possibly an illustration of how terrible it's going to be -- not fire but something worse, a thirst for God that cannot be quenched...