Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freud's writings are always dramatic. In the world that he pictures, man's ego is always at war with his unconscious; sons are at war with their fathers; man's sexual instinct, as deeply rooted as his hunger for food, is at war with the norms and conditions of social life. And contrary to the usual impression, most of Freud's writing deals with the simplicities and not with the abnormalities of human experiences: with people sleeping, dreaming, blundering and forgetting, not with sexual aberrations and sexual crimes...
...whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville--who had known this harbor like a home--had felt the same intense experience, perhaps had sat on the self-same breakwater, and had distilled that sensation for all time in the story of Ahab and the white whale...
...Irish Rebellion, telling how noble young men and patriots suffered torture, prison, and even death at the hands of the British during the years of the World War and after, all for the sake of freedom. Prisons fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could lay off for supper. On he must read through the tale of other peoples' struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could...
...leaving the cartel in command of an estimated 90% of the export market. With the current recession in the U. S., however, and the consequent falling off of domestic steel orders, certain U. S. makers have been dumping steel abroad, undercutting cartel prices and taking advantage of the steel hunger of nations preparing for war. For the first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted to 2,337,970 gross tons against 1,040,630 for the first eleven months last year. Hence the arrival last week...
...Shanghai veteran correspondents reported scenes of "filth, disease, hunger and madness" among the 1,000,000 Chinese refugees from battle areas. In a single theatre 14,000 have been living like vermin for weeks. Biological processes continued: among the 1,000,000 refugees a child was born every minute, there was a death every three minutes, and twelve mothers died in childbirth every hour...