Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphed Alderman S. F. Johnson of Southend-on-Sea, determined to carry the campaign to Parliament: "We are not satisfied to pervert the morals of our own children. We want to pervert the minds and morals of all the nations of the world...
Market for Progress. Turkish coal mines dig only one-tenth as efficiently as American mines. Turkish farmers still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged...
...read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied with one dress and one pair of slippers. There are now so many of us who want, oh, so many small and big things...
...country's Mr. Conservative, a blown-in-the-bottle Bourbon whom Liberals passionately hate. On the night of the April 9 riots, mobs of frenzied men seeking to avenge the assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, surged through Bogota's gutted streets screaming: "We want the head of Laureano!" At that time Laureano was presiding over the Bogota hemispheric conference as Colombia's foreign minister. He barely escaped the rioters (they burned down his house and the plant of his newspaper El Siglo) and took refuge for a year in Franco Spain...
...eating places in the Boston and Cambridge area. The Ararat, as Armenian vittles bazaar at 71 Broadway, is tasty--and cheap, a bit out of the ordinary. Simeone's, 21 Brookline Street--1 block from Central Square--offers Italian-American cuisine for those who don't want to hike it all the way to Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer and food, while the Cafe de Paris at 165 Mass...