Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial for their part in the revolt of factory workers at Poznan (TIME, July 9, et seq.)poured forth a torrent of testimony against the secret police and the Communist system. From court, and prosecution as well, came verification that some of the testimony-of police brutality, of enforced hunger, of officially induced lying-was indeed true. Paradoxically, the evidence was made possible by the Polish Communist Party itself. With the relaxation of Russian control it has been trying to suggest that it is capable of leniency and of sympathy with Polish workers...
...Illinois squire and a New York millionaire have presented themselves as candidates, and the squire has won the lead. In the party that thrives on its never-say-die struggles for power, Estes Kefauver withdrew in the name of "unity." While they approve of moderation, most good Democrats hunger for that old spirit-for the man who, in the convention's last moments, can soar through and above the electronic gadgets, the political gimmicks and the leaden harmony. They need a man who can revive the party's fighting spirit and send the delegates away from the convention...
...Alley. In The Horses, a corporal named Peer helps care for 800 hunger-crazed horses. As he daily enters the stockade with his bag of oats, the milling, rearing horses snap at the feed...
...depend for many years, on oil supplies from the Middle East. If ever our oil resources were imperiled, we should be compelled to defend them. The facilities we need in Cyprus are part of that defense. "No Cyprus-no certain facilities to protect our supply of oil. No oil-hunger and unemployment in Britain. It's as simple as that." This was certainly plain speaking. Eden went farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek...
...reputation for never protesting. Are you going to let it be said that you also never build anything? Are things going to be built in the Alps but not around the place on Monte Vergine where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1597 to save Visciano from pestilence and hunger? Saint Francis, when he was building his monastery at La Verna, promised: 'He who gives me a stone will have reward for one stone-he who gives me two stones will have two stones' reward-he who gives me three will have fullness of blessing.' If every...