Word: yearning
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...Some peasants have undertaken to adopt the pattern of an agricultural cooperative. Under this system the land would be collectively cultivated and the produce distributed according to the members' contribution of labor and land." Obviously, the 42.3% of the peasants who still prefer to "work by themselves" and "yearn for the capitalist way of getting rich" might profitably remember what happened to the Russian kulak...
...Test of Bigness. Government trustbusters think, as they always have, that Big Steel is too big, and yearn to break it up. Yet twice the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to clip the company's growth, has permitted it to expand and buy Consolidated Steel Co., in 1946, the West Coast's biggest fabricator. Even the Attorney General approved Big Steel's purchase of the war-surplus $200 million Geneva, Utah plant, because Big Steel alone was big enough...
Even though the wives seem to thrive on it, some still yearn for the day when "everyone could just get together in a sort of secret cartel on ambition." FORTUNE itself puts in a plug for the "ornery wife," thinks the "integration" has gone too far. "Conformity," says an editorial on the survey, "is being elevated into something akin to a religion." But there are still companies that will have no part of it. Says one auto executive: "Wives' activities are their own business. What do these companies want for their $10,000? Slavery...
...dreams of escape spark men's hearts the world over. Wherever discontent and fear and fancied oppression lurk-and that in some measure is always everywhere-men yearn to escape and are stopped by the ugly question: Where? For those behind the world's iron curtains, the urge is stronger. Their fears are seldom without foundation and their path of escape is clear: it lies just over the border...
...should He multiply these loaves for men, Those who were hungry? Why not destroy hunger? Or simply make man never to yearn again, Never dread dawn or fear the darkness longer? He did not say, We hunger not and need Not then be filled. Rather, I am not the first, Nor last, but only One of you to bleed With the paradox of thirst, to cry, "I thirst...