Word: yearning
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...trapped as they are between French violence and rebel violence, Algeria's Moslems increasingly yearn for the end of a war that has cost (by French estimates) the lives of 250,000 rebels. The French army has confined 11,000 Algerians in concentration camps, forced 1,500,000 men, women and children into "regroupment centers" whose squalor is unmatched even by the Arab refugee camps on Israel's borders. When a French radio reporter toured Algiers' casbah last week seeking reaction to the rebel decision to try negotiations, the few Moslems who would talk at all would...
Hanoi radio gloated over a striking propaganda victory: "Welcome to the fine sons and daughters of the nation, whose hearts yearn for their great leader Ho Chi Minh, who long to return home to join in the socialist construction...
...prestige of Harvard University has been used to promote a destructive ideology," it charges. Followers of the doctrine include "the whole gamut of the totalitarian world. Socialists, Nazis, Fascists, Argentine Peronistas, followers of Nehru and those in the United States who yearn for a 'man on horseback' have embraced the socio-economic thinking of Keynes...
Personality & Philosophy. His shockheaded youthfulness, his wealth, and his Roman Catholic faith are mixed political blessings in the race where the Democratic bosses yearn for a candidate with no handicaps. Among his assets are an engaging personality, a persuasive and positive speaking talent and a pretty wife, the former Jacqueline Bouvier, daughter of a Manhattan financier; together and with Baby Daughter Caroline, the Kennedys have probably filled more picture-magazine space than all other candidates combined. A man of proven courage (his Pulitzer-prizewinning book. Profiles in Courage, was written while he was recovering from a painful, near fatal series...
...resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once, the Japanese government surrendered to temptation. Shrugging...