Word: yen
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...yen of Christian churchmen for achieving church unity is more pathetic than peculiar to behold. It is pathetic because it reveals quite clearly that even after some 2,000 years of bloodshed, burning and all manner of proselytizing in the name of the Christ Jesus, Christians still are impelled by his example but unable to comprehend the principle of his action...
Still, Wellington supposed, I guess I must arrange with one of the local flora for something to do on Christmas Eve. There seemed to be a general whirl of activity that evening, and Wellington did feel rather a yen for social contact. Indeed, Wellington joked to himself, it was about time he got some of that good old social contact in there. He cast about among the girls he remembered, and settled on Eugenie Schwartz as the one least offensive to his tastes. Eugenie always could hold up her end of a conversation, Wellington recalled, and he was about...
...coast, on asphalt playgrounds, backyard lawns, city streets, municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according to old opponents, possesses...
...remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...
...nonchalantly to girls clinging to their boyfriends on speeding motorcycles. So far has demand outrun production (7,000 a day) that many stores are forced to issue tickets entitling customers to buy a dakkochan when stocks are replenished. All night queues wind around entire blocks, and scalpers charge 500 yen ($1.39) not for a doll but for a low-numbered ticket...