Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inferno. But then the sentinels' signal fires flare. Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...
...there is only a quickly reached maximum salary that would seem like a miserable pitance to a second rate lawyer. So when the chance for self betterment comes in the field the man is a fool who does not take advantage of the opportunity to remove the threat of hunger...
They wrote and Mr. Milestone photographed the story of German schoolboys who went to war. There they met Hunger. They met and grew to worship a guttural, tough comrade called Kat. They met nerve-tearing bombardment, lice, pain. They met three French girls by swimming a river after nightfall. One by one they met Death...
Some German soldier probably found the litter of puppies on a deserted Alsatian farm and took them along with him for luck. When luck went bad, he left them behind. The Allied troops getting into the captured sector found the puppies in a dugout, whimpering with hunger. They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette...
...emphasis on material possessions as the criterion of equality or inequality has led Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this decree, it is a vital question to determine exactly what are the specifications for "Kulakdom" as distinguished from the "middle" peasantry...