Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have-nots eyed the haves with as much jealousy and hunger as ever a swarm of 18th century peasants peered through the bars of the Monseigneur's iron fence. Just as the peasants' eyes followed the fresh beefsteak from the hands of the leering Monseigneur into the jaws of his dogs, so the have-nots watched the haves promenade their lovelies on Mount Auburn Street...
...Batista coup and last week's Bolivian revolt may be followed by explosions elsewhere, possibly in Ecuador or Colombia. But nobody in Latin America, except the Communists and the neo-fascist fringe, professes to want any other kind of government except democracy. In the long run, as hunger and ignorance are dealt with, democracy may yet win in Latin America, though it is likely to be quite different from the U.S. variety...
...pretend that we do not have this longing is as great a self-deception as to act uninterested when the dinner bell rings. Whether our lives are happy or unhappy, or-like most lives-a confusing blend of dullness and joy and anguish, within each of us is the hunger for a kind of life so radiant and intense that the grave will not be able to frustrate it. God has created us this way; He has built the desire into our very being." -The Rev. Chad Walsh in Episcopal Churchnews...
...Laughton went off on a solo tour, to give readings from the Bible, Aesop and Dickens. Six weeks later he pocketed $90,000 of the $164,000 gross. Laughton says complacently: "Contrary to what I'd been told in the entertainment industry, people everywhere have a common shy hunger for literature...
Besides preaching at other key points in town, Evangelist Graham held daily noontime prayer sessions in the Pentagon auditorium. The response he got there surprised him. "Never in my whole religious experience," said Billy, "have I seen such a hunger for religion as at the Pentagon...