Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia, the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Protestant Radio Commission, demanded more religious broadcasts: "We will not bow before the demands that soap and cigarettes be first in people's thinking . . . Religion is not a hobby with the American people, nor is it a hunger felt only...
Many popular ideas about hunger are questioned or exploded by Dr. Ancel Keys and his co-authors.* Examples...
...Hunger and starvation have stricken every part of the earth at one time or another. Yet despite the tragic abundance of source material, medical science does not know very much about what happens in the human body when it runs short of food. Still less is known about what happens to the mind. Last week, researchers gathered at the University of Minnesota to celebrate the completion of a monumental work, The Biology of Human Starvation (University of Minnesota, 2 vols.; $25). The book satisfies some of man's hunger for knowledge about his hungering body and suggests ways...
...Hunger is not necessarily a sensation caused by contractions of the empty stomach. Such pangs usually disappear during acute starvation; they are severe in semi-starvation, but may actually be worse when refeeding has begun. Men whose stomachs have been removed still feel hunger. Another word than "hunger" is needed to describe the drive for food...
Riot & Rebellion. Since famine may strike a particular social class in the midst of plenty, why is it that starving people do not rebel and simply seize food? Dr. Keys and his team of researcher-writers explain in reply: "Riot and rebellion are engendered by minor hunger and deprivation, but real starvation makes for relative tractability. Though moral and social standards may be lost, lethargy and weakness are powerful deterrents against strong action...