Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told of his failed run for judgeship as a young man, and of his insatiable hunger for learning. On the second day of my visit, though, having been strangely soothed by these stories and accolades, I learned of the death of Steve's 84-year-old grandmother. We talked the next day and tried to ease each other's pain. Our already powerful friendship was strengthened as a result...
...junior high students at Graham and Parks work for three hours in a range of agencies that address community needs: health care, legal services, homelessness, elderly, consumer protection, hunger, community education and the environment. They then integrate their experiences into the curriculum through written projects and oral presentations...
Most of those waiting are women and children; their men were killed in the endless fighting that has cursedhusband in two months -- "He has another wife," she explains -- and two younger children have died of hunger. Her daughter, naked except for a string of turquoise beads, coughs at her side. Dhaqane snatches the girl to her bony chest. "I will stay here," she says, "until the food runs...
...creation of laws, police, courts and a constitutional convention (democracy triumphed over a police state by a single vote). As they began to discover the relevance of reading and arithmetic through managing their miniature society, Richmond's students also discovered in themselves an enthusiasm for education -- and a hunger for more...
...That's why I'm willing to take risks for ShenTong. He went to China to try to say out loud thata full stomach and gadgets in the home is notgoing to still the hunger for freedom," he said...