Word: hungered
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...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...this scorching desert. And while the royal families of Rajasthan adroitly revived their state by carving tourist trails between their exquisite forts and palaces, it remains to be seen if the Nagarathars can do the same. They have the raw material. What's needed now is the mercantile hunger of their forebears...
...Japanese and South Koreans also worry about becoming dependent on imported rice. The concern is especially acute in South Korea, which suffered from widespread hunger as recently as the 1960s. In 1993, Japan was forced to import large quantities of rice when its harvest failed due to unusually cold weather. But many Japanese refused to buy it because of reports of dead rats in sacks of foreign rice and televised taste tests in which participants deemed the strange grains inedible. So shoppers stood in long lines or turned to the black market to buy local rice at outrageous prices instead...
...huge mistake. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” should chronicle the making of the eponymous album—50’s breakout opus—if it insists on being so autobiographical and depicting a rapper who actually still has some hunger in his rhymes. Despite a few passable performances, most notably from “Hustle & Flow’s” Terrence Howard as a somewhat unhinged Southerner, “Get Rich” fails to maintain the myth of 50 Cent. The only rap performance, rather than being...
...Despite the positive gestures, the two countries still regard each other warily. Years of double-digit growth in China's military spending could within a decade give it the means to project power in the region, and its hunger for natural resources worries American strategists. Says a U.S. official who deals with China, "We talk about China as a rival in our meetings, and that's how they talk about us in theirs...