Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms 25 to 35 ft. below the surface...
Vows Jungle Jim : "They'll get triple their money's worth." From the size of the native thirst, he will pay off his land next year...
...scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...
Known at Yale as "O.K.," Utah-born Sociologist Moore, 40, launched his experiment as a result of recent ferment among behavioral scientists, who no longer see man and beast as motivated mainly by the "primary" drives of hunger, thirst and sex. Another major motivation, the scientists now argue, is a "competence" drive-the appetite to master complex relationships that is the apparent basis of problem solving. Moore's special interest is the problem in which the seeker has . no rules or fixed goals to guide him. Most notable example: the mystery of how children learn to speak their...
...principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan's water. As the downstream areas turned parched and seared, excitable Pakistanis called for war, crying that a quick death was better than death by thirst and starvation. India agreed to turn the water back on, but the Indus remained a major source of the antagonism that has long divided the two nations...