Word: needing
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...origins and took his presumed father's surname). Although Alois was nominally a Roman Catholic, he placed his faith in the whip. When the sixth of his eight children misbehaved, he was beaten unmercifully. Schicklgruber/Hitler died when Adolf was 13, a lively and artistic youth racked by the need for recognition and the appetite for vengeance...
...were purged and murdered. The nation's most original minds were exiled to a concentration-camp universe from which few returned. Military tactics that demanded objectivity were decided for personal reasons. Friends who came upon the Fuhrer secretly reading with the aid of spectacles were told, "You see, I need glasses. I am getting old, and that is why I prefer to wage war at 50 rather than...
...difficult to wean or bully its farmers from the cocaine trade unless economic growth opens markets for alternative products. But Peru's gross domestic product shrank 28% in the first quarter of 1989, and inflation has been running at 25% a month. In Bolivia officials contend that they need & $300 million to $500 million a year to develop legitimate alternatives for coca-farming peasants. That is considerably more than Bennett proposes to spend on the whole region. Democratic Congressman Larry Smith of Florida voices a typical congressional opinion: "I'm wary of sending large chunks of money to any country...
...sellers is Street Brats ($60), with contrasting-color laces, marbleized leather and tongues that stick straight up. L.A. Gear was started in 1979 by Robert Greenberg, 49, a hairdresser turned entrepreneur who keeps his finger on the pulse of California shopping culture. Says he: "I'm a mallaholic. I need to go to a mall at least twice a week, or I get the shakes." Sales at L.A. Gear accelerated from $11 million in 1985 to $224 million in 1988 and are expected to more than double this year...
...father of three sons, whose wife died of cancer in 1970, Mazowiecki is learning how to live in the media spotlight. When reporters asked who would serve in his government, he replied, "I have to think for a while. There is no time, but still I need some time." Then, as the cameras turned away, Mazowiecki seemed relieved. "Finally," he said, "I can have a smoke...