Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last fortnight, 104 of the unmarried monks and 109 of the nuns shuffled into Seoul's Choke Temple to start a hunger strike. Rubbing their prayer beads, softly chanting their sutras. they waited. As night fell, the celibates retired to sleep-all but Sentry Kim Chi Yo, who took up his post at the temple's weathered wooden gates. There was a delegation of married monks in town to protest the government's decree, and rumor had it that the married monks might be looking for trouble...
After the "trial," Father Leoni was sent to a prison camp, Mordovia, between Moscow and the Urals. "There, hunger was our constant companion. Every day they gave us 20 ounces of rye bread, two cups of tea and two dishes of 'Volga.' We called the soup they gave us 'Volga' because it was nothing but water. On this diet the prisoners were expected to do heavy labor -mostly cutting lumber in the forest around the camp. Nonetheless, I succeeded in carrying out my mission as a priest-secretly. A Hungarian turner who was Catholic found...
...Cleveland College: U.S. wage earners are uneasy, and the problem is not one of wages and hours, "as organized labor would have us believe. Raising the price of prostitution does not make it the equivalent of love. Is our industrial discontent not in fact the expression of a hunger for a work life that has meaning in terms of higher and more enduring spiritual values?" What the modern worker needs, according to Presbyterian Ohmann, is "skyhooks" to lift up his work-"something to believe in ... that will give meaning...
...attack Billy Graham, America, and his own British public [May 9]. Never have I seen such an illogical and prejudiced article ... It seems that Mr. Priestley puts himself up as the master psychologist when he says so bluntly, "The reason for Billy's success is not Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show." I would like to ask Mr. Priestley if he took the time or effort to interview those who attended the campaigns, and especially those who made decisions ... I happen to be one of those who made my decision during one of Graham...
...still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley is steeped in dill-pickle juice...