Word: hankered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February he began to hanker after French cooking, left Kangerdlugssuatsiaq for Paris...
...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
Starting at 8.30 o'clock, the men and older sons left for a day of tennis and golf at the Dedham Club with a litle baseball thrown in for the spryer individuals who hanker for that sort of thing...
...perhaps arbitrary assumption that his fellow-Europeans hanker to know what the U. S. is really like, Editor Ringel, New York literary correspondent for Berlin newspapers, persuaded 46 U. S. literati and 100 artists to contribute to an omnium-gatherum of descriptions, opinions and whatnot. On the assumption that such a book, "intended and edited for publication in European countries'' would enthrall U. S. natives, it is first published in the U. S., crowned with the Literary Guild's June choice...