Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asia Minor. It is a picture of countless students, many of them dressed in the only clothes which they possess, old faded and patched army uniforms, young women with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, hurrying to class rooms, with faces pinched by cold and hunger. Just read these words, written in a letter by a Russian student...
...Before you I stand, a student, starving while attending school. Hunger forced me to pick from garbage cans hends of herring. Not satisfied, I ate hay which I stole from a cow. This produced terrible head aches. Next I chewed small pieces of paper to satiate the gnawing pangs of Hunger. My stomach and teeth ached, and the muscles of my jaw grew tired...
...suits are priced at 40,000 marks, a pair of street-shoes at 10,000, a liter of milk 48, and other commodities in proportion. From these figures it is evident that the mass of people is swiftly losing its buying power. This means, in the long run: hunger. And the unequivocal teaching of history is that hunger is the torch of revolution...
...This bit of sarcasm will probably be taken over by Lenin for propaganda work, in which case we will promptly claim a fitting reward). But we digress. In fine, the nub of the matter is this: Russian women have taken up smoking as a means wherewith to assuage their hunger. And in the first flush of enthusiasm they have broadcasted the news to an astounded world...
...abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...