Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to speak came soon. With peace, the bitter recollection of bread lines, hunger marches, closing shipyards and pits, employers who exploited unemployment to depress wages under prewar Tory governments flooded back into British memories. The Tories were unceremoniously bundled out of office. Butler himself survived by only 1,158 votes...
...oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...gloomy Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus made his famed pronouncement that human populations, unless checked by enemies or disasters, tend to increase until finally checked by hunger. Malthus foresaw only catastrophe ahead. In fact he predicted that within 50 years Britain would be in disaster because of overpopulation. Malthus was wrong in his prediction. Around him in England, as he was writing, his countrymen were developing the machine culture that permitted a new cycle of human expansion. But many scientists are convinced that in his broader sense Malthus may still be proved right. Today's neo-Malthusians maintain that catastrophe...
...they careen along the road to knowledge. They are a little ashamed on discovering that "their own organism contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like the whites of eggs, hydrogen like gas lamps," but delighted to learn that "the tongue is the seat of taste, and the feeling of hunger resides in the stomach." Not complete imbeciles, they become suspicious of historians on reading that the Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes, a length of 45 miles." But Dumas' romantic novels enchant them with the news of life they find there, i.e., that...
Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill. World War II intensified his hunger for expression, fame, applause and riches. In 1943, after four years of clerking in a men's clothing store, he joined the Army Air Force as an aviation cadet. At Minnesota's St. John's University, where he took preliminary training, he wrote, produced and acted in two U.S.O. variety shows which convulsed the uncritical birdmen-to-be. He went on to Tulare and Taft, Calif., but was a clumsy pilot. He soloed but was washed out during primary training (although he sometimes claims, in moments of imaginative...