Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's a real hunger in this country for a return to spiritual and moral values. I hear it and feel it everywhere I speak. Carter seems to be able to volunteer this information about his deep beliefs easier than I can. I don't know whether on my part there's a hesitancy to involve God in a political campaign. I know one thing: it's inconceivable to me that anyone would think he could do this job, the presidency, if he couldn't call on God for help and have the faith that...
...been breathtaking. Before the New Hampshire primary, he was unknown to 55% of the electorate; now he is known to 82% and viewed as accept able by 59%. Based on answers from the people who were polled, the Carter phenomenon seems the result of two factors: 1) the hunger for a Democratic candidate who can win in November and 2) the search for an indefinable quality of moral leadership at a time when 61% of the respondents feel something is morally wrong in the nation. That search for moral leadership promises to be Carter's strongest asset against Ford...
...that for the majority of Soviet citizens, the minimal comforts of housing -however cramped (10 ft. sq. per person, by Lenin's edict)-and a regular diet-however spare (sausage, potatoes, cabbage)-are better than they had before. Especially to those older Russians who lived through the hunger of the war. conditions now seem acceptable. There are even hints of affluence -a few self-service stores, prepackaged goods. Some citizens feel rich enough to afford wigs, pets and facelifts. The wait for a car, however, is one to five years...
...many analysts, however, the sourness is less a matter of outright hostility toward Government, politics and institutions than an impatience with turmoil in American life. After years of fighting over race, drugs, sex, Viet Nam, Watergate and recession, voters are seeking some kind of normality. "There is a hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional...
...Instructor Robert Collins applauded WNET, New York, for its production. Says he: "What they've developed is an appreciation for the period. This cuts across age lines. TV has been an archvillain in terms of locking us into a continuous 'now.' There's a real hunger in this country for a collective past, a cherishable identity...