Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against war. . . . We ask for mercy, human and divine, upon the people of Finland. Let not our imaginations fail to see their plight. . . or our hands be slow in helping their affliction. The families that ruthless violence puts in jeopardy, may our generosity assist; and the hapless victims of hunger and homelessness, may our plenty supply...
...Springs, to a thousand cities and towns--that's where Harvard will go. Fathers will greet sons; there will be musings and laughter: "So you're in your Junior year! Well, it won't be long now." Church services, Christmas trees, and parties will crowd the days. Parents will hunger for talk, and give advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion; brothers and sisters will laugh at their seriousness. Others will waste their substance in gaiety, while doting parents shake...
When he reached the Valley of Chin, he found it no longer a land of rice and persimmons. It was a battleground, a mud-soaked, blood-soaked Hell. The severest rains in years and a Japanese Army crazed with hunger and lust had simultaneously descended on it. By the time he arrived the Japanese had been pushed back, but he was told and could see what had happened...
...infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
...that it keeps him from his favorite occupation: eating. For Marcel Tabuteau is not only Philadelphia's first oboe player, he is also Philadelphia's most spectacular gourmand. "For two weeks I am on a milk diet!" he exploded. "Do you know what that is like? The hunger, it does not leave me. Whatever I do, wherever I go, it is like something I cannot take off. To me the cooking and eating are arts as great as music-maybe greater. One more week I shall go on. Then I will live again...