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The most authoritative measure of food emergencies, known as the IPC, has warned that famine will have gripped the area in the next four weeks or so.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024

Quietly and tremendously that State will have gripped its adversary and tightened its muscles—that is all.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)