Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...
Greater knowledge of Russia, an understanding by America of her position in the world, fostering of civil liberties, and furthering of world organization are necessary for the "war against hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty and fear," the only war which is "inevitable...
Unfortunately the political requirements attached to the reconstruction project are singularly ill-suited to its purpose. By demanding a guaranteed anti-Communist government in each of the sixteen nations, Mr. Harriman ranks governmental ideology, above mass hunger, a stipulation which can only reduce the effectiveness of his plan. Any nation with a strong Communist party could conceivably be denied aid. This would result in a further infiltration of Russian ideas at the expense of American prestige...
Minnesota's famed Professor Maurice B. Visscher and two colleagues had suspected for some time that moderate hunger, the usual state of most of the animal kingdom, might be a pretty healthy thing. In their mouse experiments, begun several years ago, they divided 144 newborn female mice into two groups. One group got all it could eat. The second group got two-thirds as many calories as the first (i.e., a full ration of proteins and vitamins, but less carbohydrates and fats). After the first 240 days, 26 of the underfed group of mice were then fed the full...