Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Czech political refugee has just sent us a letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
Your article on the British economic crisis [TIME, Aug. 29] practically ignores the U.S. tariff as a cause of Britain's dollar hunger. How much importance should be attached to it, and what are the facts? I wish to buy an English overcoat this fall. If I pay $100, how much of it will go to our Government as tariff ? How much will stay with the American merchant as profit? How much will get back to England...
...tear-gas grenades, but when a fresh breeze dispersed the gas, they started shooting as the crowd kept on coming. Two workers were killed. Troops from a nearby garrison finally restored order. The riot's Communist ringleader was put in jail, where he promptly went on a hunger strike and claimed he had been in Kemi for a vacation...
...merit respect" on a "nutritional and utilitarian" basis. The honey gives carbohydrates, and, with the sesame oil, takes care of caloric values. Protein from the sesame supplies the nitrogen need of the body, the squill serves as a mild heart stimulant, and the opium deadens the stomach's hunger pains...
Venice, which had revolted against Austrian rule and proclaimed a republic, was under Austrian blockade by land & sea, almost demoralized by hunger, disease and heavy artillery bombardments. A young Austrian officer is said to have persuaded his superiors to let him try a balloon attack. Launched in favoring winds from a warship in the bay, the bags were filled with hot air from suspended straw fires and carried 28-lb. explosive charges equipped with primitive rope fuses...