Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau of gas-chamber notoriety. There he ran a web of anti-Nazi conspiracy. He served one nine-month stretch in solitary, and ended another with a 28-day hunger strike that brought ruin to his digestive system...
...summary, Dr. Cohen describes the prisoners' transition from the initial reaction to the stage of adaptation, in which hunger becomes the all-consuming drive and the sex urge disappears. Then comes the third stage, one of acquiescence, when prisoners accept their fate and the amorality of camp life. With their jealousies and factionalism, the prisoners do not form an "organized mass" in the Freudian sense, says Dr. Cohen, but merely a crowd...
...Devil Laughs. "Religion," Philosopher Stace begins, "is the hunger of the soul for the impossible, the unattainable, the inconceivable . . . Either God is a mystery or He is nothing at all." Stace holds that God is such a mystery that any attempt to reason about him, e.g., to prove that God is the Creator of the Universe, is doomed to fail. "To ask for a proof of the existence of God is on a par with asking for a proof of the existence of beauty . . . If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does...
...open window, Ringleader Dickens presented the rioters' demands. "We're not asking for no hotel," he said. But the convicts wanted a full investigation of prison food and the prisoners' complaints of brutal treatment. Fearful for the safety of the hostages, officials decided to wait for hunger and thirst to break the revolt...
Stressing the fact that money must be accompanied by education, he continued, "Bucking for new methods on a rented farm is not enough. There must be hope for eventually owning a farm. We must remember that bread hunger in the cities and land hunger on the farms have been the great cause of revolutions. Certainly this was true of the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions...