starvation
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When a man credited with saving at least a billion people from starvation asks you to pay attention to something, it isn’t a message you forget or ignore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Xu was born into a poor family in rural Henan province in 1958, the year leader Mao Zedong launched his "Great Leap Forward" -- an industrialisation plan that led to mass starvation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Emigration isn’t cheap, Ms. Kaushal reminds us: “Populations beset with high levels of poverty and starvation simply do not have the means to emigrate.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
For our early ancestors, body fat was a lifeline: too little could mean starvation, too much could slow you down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“You’re both wrong. It’s starvation, pure and simple,” comes another explanation.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Still bearing the scars from when she almost died, she went off the grid, calling herself Emma and taking jobs that were the “stuff that fresh starts and soul starvations were made of.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
The cohort born in the 1970s and 1980s, who now compose the bulk of China’s workforce, grew up hearing about the deprivations and even starvations their parents experienced during China’s recent past.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2017
The acorn bread was not sufficient to sustain lives already so attenuated by repeated starvations.
From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan
Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food.
From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
These epochs are replete with interesting and romantic incidents, new discoveries; starvations; battles; massacres; lonely, dangerous journeys, etc., which can only be touched upon in a volume of the present size.
From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
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