Word: yearning
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...Sunday, when 30,000 Falangists from all over Spain converged at Lion's Heights (35 miles northwest of Madrid), the Guadarrama pass dividing New and Old Castile. They cheered "Viva Giron!" when the swarthy Labor Minister cried: "For us, fighting is easy; we love war, we yearn for the feel of a gun in our hands!" The applause to his hour-long speech showed him as the only individual in Spain outside of Franco with personality and popularity of his own. As for Franco himself, his faint voice and prepared script were anticlimactic, as he declared: "If war comes...
...silence, "he made her feel shabby." seeming implicitly to criticize her way of life. Each of Carlotta's guests uneasily senses David's moral strength, and each turns to him for help; but he can give none of them the ready-made solutions for which they yearn. David is trying to live his own life and to root himself in "a country-bred wisdom" as protection against the "artificial stimulation" of the city. To Carlotta, the aging star of bedroom farces, this seems a threat to her very existence, and she soon resents him violently...
...them know that the fort's equipment is obsolete. But few of them worry. The invaders, say the skeptics, will come by a different route; probably they will not come at all. Only a handful of dedicated soldiers really believe in the threat of the North and yearn for the day when their fidelity will be put to the test. And even these rare men suspect that the only reason for their faith is that they want to "give life some significance...
Head-hunting among the Marindese and Boetinese tribes of New Guinea is not mere wanton cruelty, but a "moral-religious necessity." The natives have the highest motives: they love their children and yearn for immortality, and headhunting is their way of satisfying both urges. This theory is expounded by Anthropologist Justus M. Van der Kroef of Michigan State College, in the current American Anthropologist...
...comes home from work he has dinner, then settles down to read for the evening . . . never takes me any place, we have no company and I am really very lonely." Columnist Agnelli's advice: "Be thankful for a happy, contented and settled husband, and don't yearn for the moon...