Word: hungering
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...World Bank. Having retreated from the war against communism, he threw himself into the struggle against another enemy, which has turned out to be more robust and insidious: human misery so extreme and extensive that it can spread across borders in the form of marauding armies or refugees fleeing hunger and chaos...
Unable to earn a substantial wage, farm workers and their children suffer from hunger and malnutrition. A 1990 survey by the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation concluded that one out of every three, or more than 65,000, farm worker children in the Central Valley suffers from severe hunger. Two out of every three farm worker families in this region face monthly food shortages. Farm worker children as young as five or six years old, are forced to forgo education and work in the fields to help their family survive...
...then people were stripping glue off walls for protein. Tons of rotting sheep guts were boiled down into a rancid jelly and handed out as the meat ration. It was not uncommon to see people collapse from hunger while walking home through the snow, dying on the street. Some would remain covered beneath the snow until the spring. A factory chief remembers a worker asking him a final favor. "I know that today or tomorrow I will die," he said. "My family are in a very poor way -- very weak . . . Will you be a friend and have a coffin made...
...them; an enormous frozen cesspool; and, creeping into a cellar, the figure of a German soldier, his face a "mixture of suffering and idiot-like incomprehension." "The man," recalled Werth, "was perhaps already dying. In that basement into which he slunk there were still 200 Germans -- dying of hunger and frostbite. 'We haven't had time to deal with them yet,' one of the Russians said. 'They'll be taken away tomorrow, I suppose...
...rubes out in radioland believed everything they heard, and some of the performers did too. Dad Benson ladled out cow-chip philosophy on or off mike, effortlessly spooning out such nifties as "East or west, home is best. There's no summer without winter . . . Hunger makes the beans taste better." But Marjery Moore, who played sweet, 10-year-old Little Becky on Dad's show until she was a raunchy 29, was a Camel-smoking delinquent who learned "within days of coming on Friendly Neighbor that she could get a big rise out of the radio folks by saying things...