Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China's own propagandists could no longer manage to blink the fact that their country was in the grip of a major agricultural crisis...
...makes no mawkish attempt to glorify poverty, but it is crammed with woods lore and river-rat doings that Billy might well have missed had his family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...
...destiny, our religion, is the cloudy and dark climate which most of America finds itself living in today. The individual may do what he likes to further his own gain. The man of wealth owns a whole district of slum dwellings, and feels no pangs of conscience for the hunger, squalor and disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem to have worked myself into a most unhappy state...
...cities inside the earthquake region. The first shipments of help only scratched the surface of the need. When a trainload of refugees pulled out of half-destroyed Valdivia, those left behind called after it: "We are hungry! Please send us bread and milk!" At week's end, as hunger grew deeper, desperate men fought with knives for chunks of bread, and troops were forced to fire in the air to keep food lines from rioting...
Critic Kazin blames both Tennessee sensation-mongering and Westport comedy on a secret hunger for wickedness and bohemianism found in a rich, middle-class society. But he also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only...