"Now all of us at James Towne, George Percyy, their leader, wrote, were "beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger" that no one can describe "but he which has tasted the bitterness thereof".
Compete regularly to keep your skills sharp and your hunger for winning large.
One devastating effect of these price increases is a sharp increase in "hidden hunger," or deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals, among the poor, which leads to increased sickness and death and undermines economic productivity.
Thailand and Indonesia, which submitted to harsh austerity plans imposed by the I.M.F., experienced mass hunger and sharp increases in deaths from infectious disease, while Malaysia, which resisted the I.M.F.'s advice, maintained the health of its citizens.
But there is another aspect to the impact of increases in staple food prices on the poor: a sharp rise in "hidden hunger", or deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals.
"Thirst and hunger came on sharp," Jaffy observes.
You rightly observe that New York's next mayor will be faced with a sharp rise in poverty and hunger (editorial, Aug. 3).
Those of us who write with any frequency about food and drink usually present ourselves as equal-opportunity hedonists, our hunger no less sharp for one ethnic cuisine than for any other, our thirst all-encompassing.
Ms. Hines doesn't drive, so she used to depend on the bus, toting the food in two big bags, or her sister's Mercury Cougar, always early on Saturday mornings, when she knew hunger would be sharp after a long night.
Hunger produces energetic, sharp shouts.
