Word: hungering
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...left another, perhaps more powerful legacy: the image of Ethiopia as a land "where nothing ever grows/ No rain nor rivers flow." Mention Ethiopia today, and most people still think of starving, helpless stick figures scrambling in the dust for food. So strong is the picture of famine and hunger that Ethiopian Airlines' offices around the world still field inquiries from travelers wondering whether they should bring their own meals for the flight. Upon hearing that the song had been re-recorded, an Ethiopian friend of mine, Edna Berhane, worried that it sent the same old negative message: "Here...
...hunger over the summer to come back and have an even bigger role,” Cusworth says. “It was just a freak thing—it was devastating, but watching every game made me look forward to this season even more...
While those lyrics may mean many things to many people—conventional understanding is that they are about the need for drugs—to me, they described middle school. I felt weary—weary of hiding my hunger for poetry, and my need to express myself in unconventional ways. I felt branded by the pressure to fit in, to keep my mouth shut, to conform. And as I looked around me, I thought those ancient empty streets might as well be my streets, the limiting world of early adolescence...
...straight: in this fall's dark adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, two children are left in the woods not by an evil stepmother but by two loving parents who simply don't have enough money to feed them--and the story is turned into a commentary on poverty and hunger...
...Charlie’s a guy who comes to play,” senior forward Brendan Bernakevitch says. “He’s really creative, he’s really fast, he’s smart out there on the ice...He’s got the hunger to score goals...