Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to grain imports ordered from Canada and the U.S., China does not face the acute hunger it did in the early 1960s. Nonetheless, the official journal Red Flag has urged every Chinese to eat one mouthful less each day. "In a country with a large population like ours," said the article, "when a person saves a mouthful of grain a day, he will save a peck in a year, and the whole nation will save up to a hundred million catties [50,000 metric tons] of grain...
...some ways, the emotional substructure of the play has more density and complexity than its surface. At one point, Katy says she wishes that it was 1948. This is not merely a wistful desire to be young again; it is a hunger for the relatively stable value system of that...
...just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...
...hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. . . Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good...
...thank I hee for this indication of Thy peace," he said. "Though we have sought peace, there is war. Though we have plenty, there is hunger...