Word: hungering
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...virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good things of the consumer life. For this prosperity, the Christian Democrats, as the dominant partner in the Center Left coalition of Premier Moro during the past five years, rightly claim considerable credit...
Overnight, a small tent city of sympathizers sprouted around the gas station, which became a sort of shrine. A Franciscan priest celebrated Mass there each evening until last week, when Chavez, more than 30 Ibs. lighter-he went without food for four days longer than Gandhi during his 1924 hunger strike-ended his fast...
...schizophrenic," "homosexual," or "psychopathic." The vulnerable adolescent, already confused as to who he is, may seize upon even such negative labels in a despairing effort to be someone. Many of the disturbances of adolescence that endure into adulthood are the products of a similar interaction of the adolescent's hunger for self-definition with the adult world's thoughtless willingness to label him on the basis of a single act or episode...
...greater concern to Gaud and the Administration were charges of malfeasance against AID personnel that indirectly touched several longtime associates of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's. Herbert J. Waters, 55, director of AID'S "war on hunger," resigned recently at Gaud's direct request, after three men under Waters' jurisdiction were implicated in a $250,000 flim-flam with a Belgian firm that AID paid for work never done. Waters managed Humphrey's senatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1960, was the Minnesota Senator's administrative assistant until he was appointed...
...lover always on tap (chap who works in her office). She is suffocating in a sea of materialism, false standards and social hypocrisy. Security is a cocoon. The sorrows of the world must not intrude; her sensitive eldest daughter must not be made aware that there is cruelty and hunger in the world...