Word: hungering
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...some ways, the emotional substructure of the play has more density and complexity than its surface. At one point, Katy says she wishes that it was 1948. This is not merely a wistful desire to be young again; it is a hunger for the relatively stable value system of that...
...just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...
...hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. . . Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good...
Meanwhile, the Irish government | has turned on the I.R.A.'s militant Provisional wing, to which it once gave refiuge. Sean MacStiofain, the Proves' former chief of staff, is in military detention, discredited for having broken his hunger and thirst strike. Martin McGuinness, the Proves' 22-year-old Derry brigade commander who used to receive reporters in the Bogside gasworks (Any regrets for the shootings? "Certainly not," he would snap), has also been arrested. Other captured leaders include a strategist who used to explain, coolly and lucidly, the lessons in terror that the I.R.A. had learned from...
...thank I hee for this indication of Thy peace," he said. "Though we have sought peace, there is war. Though we have plenty, there is hunger...