Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Kansans were asked by Governor Frank Carlson and the Kansas Council of Churches to donate grain (or dollars to buy grain) to Europe. Already on the way to hunger areas were more than 10,000 bushels of wheat, donated in similar church-sponsored campaigns in Oklahoma and Texas...
...cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
Nobody relished the idea of a special session of Congress. But last week the U.S. had the word of Secretary of State Marshall that Congress alone could give Western Europe the stopgap help it needs "to meet the immediate threat of intolerable hunger and cold." The situation, said George Marshall, requires "urgent consideration." This was taken to mean: a special session some time in November, at the latest...
Economic Crisis. For crisis had become general. There was scarcely a level of human activity, scarcely a corner of the world unaffected by it. There was the crisis in food. Crops had been bad almost everywhere except Russia. The specter of hunger in winter haunted Western Europe and much of Asia. There was the crisis of production, which was in part a crisis of war's destruction. But it was essentially a crisis of the will to work-a crisis from which the U.S. was scarcely more free than Europe...
...novel's revelation of this embarrassing patrimony, bequeathed along with the family silver and several hundred slaves, is the cream of Author Williams' jest. By the time he has skimmed it, Grant has taken Richmond, hunger has become the chief enemy and the Currains have scattered all over...