Word: thirsts
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...Republic and later in his book Martyrs' Day, conveyed the pity and devastation of war with a brave, unflinching grace. Though he would go on to become an accomplished magazine editor--most recently at the Atlantic Monthly--and a columnist for the Washington Post, Kelly never lost his thirst for reporting. A few weeks ago, at 46, he returned to Iraq as a correspondent embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He became the first American journalist killed in the war, when the humvee he was riding in plunged into a canal while evading Iraqi fire near Baghdad last...
...judgment that with Camp’s advent, “literature had then failed”—he writes, “Nothing less than a fresh vision of the ongoing and conceivably climactic war between God and the Devil can slake our moral thirst now that we have passed through the incomprehensibilities of the last century...
...Mahal and instigated a series of cleanup projects that sanitized the fort's alleyways. But many other buildings, including the fort walls themselves, are in urgent need of repair. Reining in overenthusiastic developers is another major challenge, says Carpenter: "We're trying to overcome the thirst for opening yet another hotel, building another concrete extension, installing more showers...
...international affairs. In 1993, Hussein’s agents were foiled in an attempt to assassinate both the Emir of Kuwait and then-President George H. W. Bush. In ordering this crime, Hussein risked an overwhelming military response from the U.S. for little reason other than to gratify his thirst for vengeance. This assassination attempt constitutes a casus belli for the U.S. as long as Hussein remains the ruler of Iraq, and demonstrates that he is not a rational actor who can be trusted as a predictable, let alone responsible, steward of weapons of mass destruction...
...unwillingness of athletes to follow policies that have been imposed on them by a bunch of presidents and their thirst to stay within the confines of their sport should be praised, not chided. The very fact that athletes are willing to limit their social life and sacrifice their studies is precisely why athletes form such a necessary niche in Harvard’s community...