Word: hungering
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...animals storing away food for the winter ahead. Frederick, a field mouse, sits through the summer, collecting sun rays, colors and words while his friends gather grain. In the middle of winter, when his friends' food is exhausted, Frederick's warm colors and bright words make them forget their hunger. "Frederick," they acknowledge, "you are a poet...
Americans, it is said, hunger for facts. If so, this is the feast season, with the appearance of Scripps-Howard's World Almanac. One hundred years old this year, the Almanac offers 916 pages of facts on taxes, elections, strikes, natural disasters, population, Viet Nam and sports events...
...climb three jazz musicians. Men and women sitting on their dirty stoops rise and walk over to see what's going on. Kids come running, pushing, fighting, laughing. The trio starts to play. It's an evening whose gaity relieves for a moment the oppression of dirt, disease, and hunger. "We're buying time," Heckscher says. "But you have to buy time in any way you can and hope that some how things will grow better rather than worse...
...Beginning of five-day hunger strike protesting the quota system for allowing seniors to have their own apartments. Twenty-seven Cliffies fast to demand that all seniors have option to live in non-college housing...
...word which merits pronouncing, the least we can expect of any state in the socialist camp is that it not lend financial aid, nor technical aid, nor any kind of aid to those governments, those governments which are aiding imperialism in the attempt to strangle the Cuban people by hunger...