Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India and Pakistan since mid-August at least 100,000 have died, not of germs or hunger or what the law calls "acts of God," but of brutal slaughter. Scarcely one died in fair combat or with the consolations of military morale...
This latter, Heller believes, stemmed from the attitude of "complete freedom of discussion and lack of compromise which prevailed." He emphasized that the seminar was only a means of satisfying the great European hunger for intellectual exchange, never a vehicle for propaganda...
...French were still staggering under the moral shame of the occupation, filled with suspicions of one another and general listlessness. French peasants were reluctant to sell their produce for worthless francs; as a result, hunger stalked the cities...
...best to undo the damage.* Breaking the rule against direct quotation during White House conferences, he said: "Meatless and eggless days are for the purpose of saving grain. . . . When you save meat and poultry products you save grain, and grain is what is necessary to meet the hunger situation in Europe...
Long lines of Freshmen waiting a turn at the Union's more or less palatable offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...