Word: craving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite clear that the Allies' air offensive has already affected this spirit considerably." And then: "Traffic in the raided cities is difficult and takes a long time. The smallest task demands an effort. . . . Why exert yourself, if you may be dead tomorrow? . . . [The people] are so tired they crave for the end of everything at any cost...
...want, I crave the time in these, my last years, to come a little nearer to the secrets of Beethoven and a very few other eternal masters...
...purpose in quoting the above is not to pour praise on a man who certainly doesn't need it, much less crave it, but assure others as it has myself, that, after all, the Government is not going in for dancers and artists as recent publicity would indicate, but is really getting he-men for he-jobs...
...presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
...knightly crown will I ever crave 'Cept a conscience clear and an honest grave...