Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like other observers. Levine sees the slow growth of a Soviet middle class "more concerned with retention of what it has than with revolution abroad.'' These Communist bourgeois hunger "for contacts with the outside world, for more goods, for a measure of self-expression," and he believes they will act as a brake on "adventurist Soviet policies...
Again and again Batista's army announced that "the campaign is almost won." But his 1,000 barracks-fat soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of his dreams for Cuba, sitting up until dawn in the huts of the guajíros-the squatters who farm the rugged mountains. "It is not right," he said, "that a man should go to prison for robbery when he is able to work, wants to work and cannot find...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
...Roger Vailland. In the Italian town of Porto Manacore, the main sports seem to be sex and formalized verbal abuse. Author Vailland won France's Prix Goncourt with this slick, cynical and true-ringing novel of small-town hunger-for women, for power, for land and money...
Gourmet Bomb. In Tokyo, when schoolteachers went on a hunger strike, a parents' group prepared a savory meal in the open air, told the hungry teachers to help themselves, but only if they agreed to go back to their classrooms...