Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Edvard Brandes, who later wrote "I have seldom seen a man more derelict in appearance. But that face! . . . The expression on his quivering pale face haunted me." The manuscript Hamsun gave Brandes was the story of a writer starving to death in a big city. Published as Hunger it brought Hamsun world recognition. Other novels followed. They were written in a simple, austere, almost laconic style, but with passages of high lyricism and great narrative power. European critics found...
...Hearstpapers. She has also given much of her time to pondering such questions as "After materialism, what?" and to deciding what, after all, life adds up to. She finds that she agrees pretty much with English Writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), when he said, "All living is hunger, without hunger we perish...
Improved agricultural technique is not the only answer to the problem of hunger in overpopulated countries, stated Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science last Thursday. He stressed education, transportation, public health, and birth rate control methods for the food shortages in many nations...
...This was a disappointing percentage compared to World War II, when 77% of all those ever reported as missing were recovered as prisoners. Most of those unaccounted for are assumed to have been killed. Some small number, cut off behind Communist lines, may have died of cold, hunger, wounds, disease; some were undoubtedly murdered; some undoubtedly died in the prison camps; some may be still alive. The British were delighted that 919 British names-out of some 1,100 reported missing-appeared on the lists. The South Koreans were shocked by more than 80,000 of their nationals unaccounted...
...Hunger, Singh asserted, is the chief ally of Communism. He mentioned two ways in which the United States can help fight famine. First, he said, the U.S. could exert pressure on the "reactionary governments" of South Asia to effect some overdue land reforms, and second, the U.S. can give direct aid in the form of food...