Word: crave
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...truth seems to be that these youths crave violence simply for its own sake. Living in incredibly squalid conditions, unable to gain any positive recognition from society, unable to find affection and companionship at home, they conceive of violence as their only alternative to nothingness...
...spottily under way. It must, however, be very much speeded and expanded if it is to absorb the flood of youngsters pouring from the primary schools, educated to a distaste for return to the farms but not educated enough to qualify them for the white collar jobs which they crave and which are presently non-existent in the numbers required. The far smaller numbers of the secondary school and university graduates can be absorbed into the system with relative case, but not the products of the almost universal primary education of the Western and Eastern Regions...
...premature fame with a handful of lush poems-/ crave infernal dances and insensate sounds The breasts of Grecian concubines to pass the night...
...September, the Bethlehem Globe-Times published a Letter to the Editor charging that fraternity men are nuisances to their neighbors. The letterwriter stated that the University should build "a huge pit" on the campus, and continued: "Here these animals can congregate and act like the dunces they apparently crave...
...eeriness, her split-second vagueness, Actress Winwood could impose a sense of drawing-room comedy on a Laundromat, and does it all the better in a library. Though not a thriller, Speaking of Murder, as Broadway's only example of the type, should provide relief to those who crave a thriller until an actual thriller comes along...