Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many New Orleans bartenders said they have been serving the flocks of 18 to 20 year-old students, who are searching for something to quench their thirst...
Taking Foreign Cultures 66, "Tiananmen," gives me a very weird feeling, something like drinking poison to quench my thirst. The course, as it progresses, will be hard for me to swallow if I don't find a way to immediately get rid of my stubborn national protectionism from the Chinese sense of pride. So far the possibility of such a solution remains...
...tolerant government is actually providing its hideous adversaries with resources they should never have access to. The method of generously distributing weapons and training in the name of creating an environment where weapons are used properly, instead of taking them all away, is just like drinking poison to quench one's thirst; ammunition flows almost smoothly into the hands of the very people that the rifle program intends to control. Moreover, some talk show hosts are advocating the job of introduction of more fragile souls into the realm of hatred and violence. Freedom of speech, here, has gone...
...with little redeeming it beyond its value as sheer escapist entertainment. Fortunately, it has no aspirations to be any more than that. It's a fairly pleasant drop of water, a bit more well-rounded and shiny than what usually flows from student pens. If you're looking to quench your thirst for bubbly romantic plots and fizzy characters, stop by Leverett House...
They camp on doorsteps, in schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the trees have been disappearing, fed into pitiful cooking fires. If the refugees could burn corpses, there would be fuel enough for weeks...