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Word: hungriest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that two teams will play from concrete to concrete for a change today, and instead of ho-hums it will be hooray for somebody, the somebody that's hungriest for touchdowns...

Author: By Sam Spade, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this battle. . . . The Communist Information Bureau in Belgrade will coordinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Anxiety Is Unbecoming | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...sounded like a cruel joke. This week, the New York Times reported that during the past six months about 80 tons of food parcels had been shipped to the U.S. from one of the world's hungriest countries, Greece. The parcels contained olive oil, salami, cheese, figs. At the very time the U.S. prepared to give Greece major economic help, the shipments had risen to a peak of 16,000 parcels a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Like Mother Used to Make | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Germany the Red Army's heavy hand was slackening. That was related, among many other things, to the fact that millions of Russians face their hungriest winter, one in which thousands may die in the fields and streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christian Triumph | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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