Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial was a relief from endless bridge lunches and snack-bar gossip fests. Only now & then did they pause to give the proceedings their full attention-on those three climactic moments, for instance, when Yvette, sobbing and hysterical, fainted dead away from the effects of a four-day hunger strike...
...contentment does not last. As their batteries run down, Elmer and Elsie begin to feel uneasy. When hunger begins to dominate them, they lose interest in gentle light. Now they want strong light: the bright, glaring lamp that burns inside their hutch. They scuttle toward it eagerly. If all goes well, they pop into the hutch, where electrical contacts quiet their hunger by recharging their batteries. Not until their run-down stomachs are full do they creep out again in search of gentle light...
...famine of 1950 crept inexorably across China's traditional "hunger belt," some 200,000 square miles of fertile flatland that stretches from the Yangtze River to the Great Wall. Last summer, droughts had parched the flatlands; in the fall the Yellow River went on a record rampage to destroy still more farmlands. Farther south, a secondary hunger front was in the making in the normally rich Yangtze delta, hit last summer by the worst floods in 18 years. Rare in China's history have been years when famine struck in both the Yellow River and Yangtze valleys...
During his childhood in Flushing, Ohio, Reverdy knew "constant hunger; the old distillery near grandfather Ransom's house, and regular visits there to get 10? or 15? worth of whisky in a tin bucket; the unswerving religious devotion in our small community; no toys and little play; only a candy peach at Christmas; and my mother toiling to support...
...Drunken Census Taker. To tiny Spitzen-on-the-Dein, which soon seems a microcosm of all Germany, the year 1945 brings desolation, misery and hunger. The town "was as shriveled in structure and decomposed as an oxen's tongue black with ants." A lonely horse nuzzled the gutters as children hung to its tail; the undertaker had no more embalming fluid for his corpses; "everyone wore grey and over their shoulders were hitched empty cartridge belts." From the old concentration camp near by, the D.P. inmates burst out to freedom to add their misery to that of the gutted...