Chris Williams, the Swansea professor who edited the diaries, told me that Mr. Burton had "an enormous thirst for learning and reading," and that his "recall of material was quite phenomenal".
As our country continues to participate, with no end in sight, in a war that some believe is at least partly based on our country's unquenchable thirst for oil, it pains me to read stories of young men and women who seem to have little regard for the conservation of fossil fuels ("Young Drivers Squeeze Out the Miles," Aug. 13).
After the Pacific War broke out, Richie signed up to the merchant marines, in which he nurtured his thirst for travel and broadened his wide reading.
He was well read and always had a thirst for knowledge.
The vermouth-loving characters of Ernest Hemingway, revisited in summer reading, can still inspire a thirst for a glass or two.
The participants, some bearing banners reading "Beer for Taxation," argued that legalization would satisfy a thirst for both revenue and hops.
Amid fear that screens will squander our attention spans and squelch our thirst for books, writers have taken to their laptops to defend the importance of reading.
He read Encyclopedias in his leisure to cure his insatiable thirst for knowledge.
My favourite of his books is Cultural Amnesia, an unfairly neglected tome that should be required reading for anyone with a faltering memory and a thirst for knowledge.
