Word: hungering
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...horror of the Holocaust might be whitewashed by acknowledging their presence. On the other hand, some rescuers have received hate mail and death threats for their long-ago roles in sheltering Jews. Yet Block notes that most people are strongly receptive to the rescuers' stories. "There is a hunger for examples of goodness," she says. "People want to find out that we can learn from goodness and not from evil...
...potentially disastrous. They see an epochal struggle ahead to ground democracy and a free economy in the former Soviet republics, and they want to pull out the stops to help it succeed. Think how dangerous it would be, they advise, if Russian fascists and militarists, * battening on anger and hunger, seized power from Yeltsin and his fellow reformers. Yeltsin himself has warned that "certain countries" only "talk and talk" about helping, while old Communists and new Nazis circle around his government like wolves. Others speak of a "Weimar Russia" waiting for a Slavic Hitler to appear...
...flock to bookstores, libraries and auditoriums to hear her blender treatise on the inner child, unlearning, relearning, the "Universal I" and the five senses. "The bottom line is that self-authority is the single most radical idea there is," she says emphatically, "and there is a real hunger for putting the personal and the external back together again." Steinem is hardly the first to tap into that need, and indeed, her book (published by Little, Brown, a division of Time Warner) draws heavily, and at times mushily, from the existing literature. The public response defies a number of critics, many...
Last November, Cambridge voters expressed support of efforts to stop hunger among residents by overwhelmingly passing Massachusetts' first right-to-food referendum. The food question guarantees every citizen the right to nutritious food...
Although Toomey, a former school committee member, has not yet pulled together a platform, he said yesterday that he would emphasize mental health, welfare, education and hunger as some of the issues he will stress during his campaign...