Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that the four churchmen had gone on a one-day hunger strike at their villa. But the island governor, he said, had talked things over with Makarios "in a friendly way," and persuaded His Beatitude to eat his next meal...
...opera houses in which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...
Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...
...anarchist," Dolci testified. "I am a man who desires that all his fellow humans participate in a minimum of civilized life. When winter came 13 persons committed suicide out of despair. Another murdered his brother to eat his brother's store of food. Hunger-driven men became thieves ... If I am wrong, please correct me, but I believe that for men to stay un-working with folded arms for six months in the year is a crime against society and against its foundation unit, the family. The Italian constitution states that men have a duty and a right...
...rather live on bread alone, there are other ways to get your vitamins. For pure satisfaction, nothing beats sitting in the house library until the evening visit of the milk-and-doughnuts man. Lurch nosily to your feet at his whistle, and lope the length of the library with hunger in every movement. It drives the poor grinds nuts...