Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resonant Texas twang, Bradshaw drawls out the conditions that cause anguish in thousands of people. "Isolation. Aloneness. Abandonment. Skin hunger." Each, he says, is a feeling of deprivation derived from our childhood that was never resolved and sets us up to become addicts -- just as he was. And though we are grownups, we are still walking around with that wounded little kid hiding inside, wailing its needs. But wait, he adds, there's hope. By focusing personal consciousness on the frightened inner child -- as infant, toddler and adolescent -- we can all begin the process of recovery. "The goal of this...
...America does spend too much money on NATO, and in foreign aid to Japan and Pakistan," Frank said. "It doesn't, however, deal enough with Central America, helping with hunger in Africa and promoting peace and democracy in the Middle East...
...late criminal Meyer Lansky was an immigrant math whiz with a hunger for self-improvement. As a poor, dishonest kid on the streets of New York City, he quickly learned that if you can't beat the odds, change them. Using sound business principles, he laid the foundations of modern resort gambling. In his later years he hired tutors, was a regular at the Miami Beach Public Library and a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club. To his retired cronies he was an engaging cafeteria philosopher. His underworld associates found his ethical views sufficiently compatible to still trust...
...Cedras had an attack of power hunger. Indeed, the lust for power was already in his veins, because of his training in an institution that manufactures cookie-cutter generals, all hungry to take over the reins of government. I appointed him, I was his friend, and now he is a killer of my people...
...find in South Africa now television aerials sticking up from shacks in the poorest black townships. In that context, books would come low down on the list of priorities. On the other hand, because there are many people who really are not book literate, there is an immense hunger. There are so many very intelligent young people who would like to be not only more equipped to read but would like the opportunity to do so. You must remember that libraries have only recently been desegregated. I think that there's a great big crowd waiting out there to read...