Word: hungering
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...life of democracy today, however, is being urgently assaulted in many parts of the world. Half a billion human beings are severely malnourished; they are not living on welfare, nor are they thinking about their private beliefs and about plebiscites. At the moment they are dying of hunger. Yet so much are beliefs the passion of their existence that, when they are not dying of hunger, they express their beliefs in work such as the massively graceful, dazzingly intricate stone palace of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, now being embraced in luxuriant verdure...
Having developed tuberculosis of the larynx in the last few months of his life, he stopped eating, effectively becoming the hunger artist he had created in one of his most famous and revealing stories. But yet he took pleasure in other people's pleasure, and in a somehow wondrous bit of real-life symbolism, asked other people to take deep draughts of water and beer in front of him. Kafka never hated the world like he hated himself, and his endless capacity for empathy is for Hayman, one of the earmarks of his genius...
...matter of new lows and systems. The most thorough-going changes in the way people collect many and spend, it, the way they raise crops or build machines, the way they vote or don't west prove puny and anemic up against the forces--of good, hunger for power, racism and the must--that seek to dissolve them. You cannot legislate those righteous phrases into being: you cannot compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation but don't convince the segregationist that he is wrong, these his have will find a dozen other outlets...
...that the Constitution's pledge to "promote the general welfare" gives the Federal Government not merely a right but a duty to intervene in all substantive aspects of economic life. The second is that this Government intervention should provide security against the age-old risks of bankruptcy, hunger, destitution. As Roosevelt once said, "The time has come in our civilization when a great many of these chances should be eliminated." The third is that the Government has a duty to promote a reasonably fair distribution not only of wealth but of power and status and what Roosevelt called simply...
...school lunches into a billion-dollar program and announced that "the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America for all time." It is even true that Roosevelt was in a very real sense a conservative, a conservator of traditional values and ways...