Word: craving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They began flaunting their bare skin because "Adam had no clothes before he sinned. We have not sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having...
...those who suffer from repressions, Freudian or otherwise, the Harvard Crimson, stomping ground of the fourth estate, offers a sure cure. If you feel muffled and crave free expression, the Crimson's columns provide a liberal and active medium. If you hanker after handing an annual twenty-three to two trimming to the Lampoon, you'll get your chance as a Crimson editor--even if you can't play baseball...
...fight because we crave a more peaceful and more orderly world, what are the conditions on which a peace will be negotiated and what terms of peace will insure this more orderly world?" Last week no U. S. citizen could give a final answer. The Pennsylvania State Federation of Women's Clubs offered...
...consult a specialist (he discovered an infected tooth), she was convinced by her son, Novelist John Evans, that a salon is needed. Mabel hopes to get a crowd like the old one ("They were young. They were magnetic. They had radiance."), is sure there are "youngish people who crave for something more satisfying than cafe society...