Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the nations of Europe and the Far East are still gripped by the cold, hunger, and stagnation which breed vice, crime, and revolution; but they are loosed from the maniac-driven war chariot of the Axis, and they look to a future, far from untroubled yet tempered by the hope for better days. The vision of One World has faded, and its place been taken by the fact of two worlds--divided ideologically and politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural...
...Philip Wylies, the Cassandras, the Twentieth Century prophets of doom ceaselessly cry out in the wilderness of materialism. And well might they wail, for the instances of greed, ignorance, needless poverty, waste, hunger, violence, falsehood, hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed...
...program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted prayers and slogans ("Victory unto the Lord who alone destroys all Evil"), Krishnanandji quietly died. His friends dug a grave, 6 ft. deep, in the sandy banks...
Into all these domains of hunger, into the squares of Vienna and Paris, into the courtyards of Athens and the collective farms of Russia, the picture of the potatoes would find its way. The Communists would see to that. It would help to convince people that the U.S. is unfit for world leadership...
From Capri, he flew to Lisbon and back to the U.S. Last week, he was home again in San Francisco.The five weeks in Europe had cost him exactly $300, plus $1,052 in plane fares. On a vacation that had completely missed Europe's hunger, he had only one bit of financial hard luck: he lost 12,000 black-market francs on roulette at Monte Carlo...