The expression "a thirst for knowledge" may have another meaning for millions of people who have no way to get clean water. A survey showed about 600 to 700 million people around the world are at risk of disease or even death because their drinking water is not clean. A researcher ...
“Scrooge was better than his word…He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew…”–Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol This Christmas, along with reading Dickens or watching George Bailey and Charlie Brown, an unlikely source can help cha...
A Word on Wiping… 11May Has this ever happened to you? There you are, just enjoying your day, playing CoD and lurking on Facebook when suddenly…. you feel a pressure in your abdomen. A bloated feeling… you start thinking about that one tire on your car that seems to be losing air...
Señor Mouney was seeing Donyasgombro and Dulcet off as they boarded the bus disguised as a renaissance cultural tourist vehicle to Firenze, Grotte di Frassassi, i.a., ‘Here’s a tub of the best for the King’ he said, handing them a large oak cask of foxglove, gorse and quince ...
How do you express curiosity or interest without using the common word ‘interested’? We often opt for phrases like “drawn to” or showing “a keen interest” to articulate an active pursuit of knowledge or engagement without relying on the common term ‘interested.’ ...
The Galdeans, led by Field Marshal Dlorn, defeated the darklings at the Crimson Fields and now head south, for word has come that the Black Imelin has turned his aim toward Meisthelm. With the army of the Hierarchy engaged far to the south, Dlorn and his Galdeans are the only forc...
Dario Milacek, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressed the thirst for knowledge, saying, "We come from a country where we don’t have a lot of experience in Para badminton. We want different knowledge from the other countries to use it in our own. There are really good coaches in this co...
We should “Hunger and thirst for it.“As the hart pants for water” is the word picture the Psalmist used to explain how we should seek God’s presence and His power. That sounds like devoted desperation. I must have it or I perish. As inadequate as my attempts are, perhaps you can...
Of course, there are always exceptions – like myself. I pride myslef on vigorously proofreading every word and sentence I write, before sending them out into the world, lavishing all the care on them that most people apply to their children. I would be mortified if errors were to be fou...
My earliest recollection of any type of racism—evidence of an attitude of superiority of one race over another—in my extended family is the use among my many Italian American aunts and uncles of the Italian word for eggplant (moulinyan) to refer to African Americans. As a boy, I could...