Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms are necessary to defend the free world, but arms alone are not enough. Hunger and hopelessness cannot be beaten with bullets and bombs; knowledge and skill, applied with understanding and compassion, are weapons we must use without stint if we are to win through...
When her people moved to Philadelphia, it was to the red-light district, where Ethel, not yet six, picked up money running errands for prostitutes; she still has "great respect" for them as "kind and generous" people. Hunger also drove her to become "a very good child thief," and at eleven, "I had trouble getting men to leave me alone...
...being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats. Moreover, when they struck in November, the Chinese were fresh, confident, unhurt. Now they had been weakened by allied air attacks and ground action, and by cold, hunger and disease. Estimates of enemy battle casualties since Jan. 25 soared last week beyond...
Rhapsody from Hunger (y). Spike Jones and his irreverent City Slickers (Victor) pull the tail of several old war horses, including Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, with the usual catastrophic results...
...Protestant women are urged to go without food on Friday, Feb. 9. The newly formed National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 11), urging observance of the first Friday of Lent as a 24-hour period of fasting, said that "physical hunger can help us to understand the people of the world who are hungry and suffering through no choice of their...