Word: hungered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make a studied effort to deflate pretentiousness. Says Powell: "During the campaign, every time we got cocky, we got kicked on our ass." They also disavow any ravenous hunger for political prestige. "The last thing I want to do," says Jordan, "is spend the second half of my life reminiscing about my days of power in Washington...
...Our.policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis ... Any assistance that this government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative...
...hours a day. Jewish prisoners normally have beds to sleep on; Arab prisoners have only mats. When asked why this was so, one prison official explained that the Arabs would use the metal to make weapons. Last winter more than 200 Arab prisoners at Ashkelon went on a hunger strike to protest conditions. Israeli officials concede that there have been occasional cases of prisoners being maltreated. The Arabs insist that torture is systematic...
...AMERICAN HUNGER by RICHARD WRIGHT 146 pages. Harper...
...consists of players whose passion is the theater and who possess talents of the highest distinction. Rosemary Harris could mesmerize an audience by reciting the multiplication table. Tovah Feldshuh is a steel butterfly, a young actress of electrifying presence and promise. As Masha, Ellen Burstyn lacks some consuming sensual hunger, but her parting embrace with Vershinin is a silent, agonized howl of lost love...