Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caribou and reindeer are extremely insistent on having the right climate; the caribou will compromise somewhat on food, but the reindeer goes on a hunger strike unless it is fed reindeer moss, a delicacy difficult to obtain, and impossible to import...
...Walks in Beauty runs true to type; but it is a sincere book and one that has hunger in it, an important quality and a rare one in flatland fiction. When Author Dawn Powell misdescribes...
Sturdy, moral, beef-consuming Britons know who Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is-know her as a famed "militant suffragette" who smashed windows, was often arrested, and repeatedly hunger-struck until British women won the vote...
...universal are the loves, fears, hates and desires, that the generic term suffices: a man, a woman, he, they. He brings to them much of the intensive insight into human fears and frailty, but less of the happy charm of his Crock of Gold. No happiness at all about "Hunger"-grim story of a woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing left but her crippled child, and bread lines. Again, in the mood of the Russians...
...whose liberalism goes beyond emotionalism and a hunger for headlines needs argument to prove the present existence and the future guarantee of free speech on the Wisconsin campus, I am sure of that. And no argument that I have yet seen convinces me that liberalism is inconsistent with at least a minimum sense of propriety...