Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
...survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself in canvas, rationed the food so that it would last, and waited...
...acknowledged that 15 million people are facing starvation in eastern Hopei province, and reported the firing of two vice governors and the downgrading of eight local functionaries in famine-stricken Kwangsi province for failing to transport foodstuffs to a stricken area, thus causing 550 people to die of hunger...
This was gratifying news for President Hernán Siles Zuazo, who has backed the program with everything from a hunger strike to threats to resign, and for George Jackson Eder, an old Latin America hand who left International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to supervise Bolivia's National Monetary Stabilization Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist...
...since the Fall, is the willful disobedience of God's law. After the theological battle between fundamentalism and liberalism, that answer was no longer sufficient -at least not to the liberals. The adherents of the social gospel were concerned with sin as a social fact, manifested in hunger, .disease, crime. The cure, in substantial part, was progress through social reform. With the momentous entrance in the '30s of Reinhold Niebuhr and neo-orthodoxy sin once again became real and personal for U.S. intellectuals-but in a new way. The moral or social emphasis was replaced by a psychological...