Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family, having a dependable job, making lots of money and having a solid and ever expanding bank account-this ideal conceived purely in these terms is not good enough. It is ... a very timid ideal. It is not dangerous enough; it does not answer to man's deepest hunger for truth and community, where going out of one's self is a joy, and where it is more blessed to give than to receive. Confronted with this ideal alone, Asia-if I must be frank with you-is not impressed. In fact, despite all her darkness and misery...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger, the child dies...
...resentment. Besides posters, sound trucks and propaganda squads, the Russians also brought with them carefully trained cadres of civilian political officers. These functionaries, most of them Russian-indoctrinated Koreans, had their offices set up only 48 hours after their arrival, and the offices really worked. There was little hunger in Pyongyang, because the Russians got rice into the city promptly and distributed it as fairly as possible. The Russians also insisted that their military government would last only so long as it took to set up an independent "people's government" run by Koreans for Koreans...
Doing Poorly. Once when Wells, safe in wealth and fame, was talking about his early poverty, a listener reminded him that at least he had never been reduced to the twin extremes of irremediable hunger and absolute homelessness. This was rather like reproaching a man who had lost both arms with not having lost both legs as well. For several years, Wells lived in an exhausting state of penury, lunching off a roll of bread, attending science school with only one battered collar (made of celluloid and washed every night) between him and ignominy. All that sustained him, and continued...