Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have done my work. It will endure, I trust, beyond Jove's anger, fire and sword, Beyond Time's hunger...
Whatever happens, it can only mean more suffering for the peasants. For many it will probably mean hunger and bloodshed. Either Khrushchev wins and reduces the rural population to the status of state serfs, or he will come to grief, as Stalin nearly came to grief before him. One thing is certain: if production cannot be increased, and soon, it will mean the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism. For, in the last resort, the agricultural crisis is not about food; it is about a theory-a theory which heaps suffering on everybody but the men who hold...
What, asks Priestley, is the reason for Billy's success? It is not Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show. "There is a vacuum that must be filled. Politics, to exist for them at all, must be a show. Patriotism is a show with an expensive regal cast . . . And now, with the arrival of the streamlined Billy Graham organization . . . religion is a show...
...ordeals of the men on Hill 317 become the ordeals war imposes on any army or all armies, on any man or all men. When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs...
Last week the hunger march took place -but not exactly as scheduled. Only 27 exported ex-hoodlums showed up in Rome, and they never even bothered to demonstrate. But fat Charles Carrolla, former liquor racketeer and boss of Kansas City's North Side, lamented along with other exiles. "I hope President Eisenhower will pardon me and let me back into the U.S.," he cried. "Here, I am always followed around by police agents. Besides, Italy is a poor country...