Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 3000 Harvard undergraduates joined thousands of students from area colleges yesterday in a fast to raise money for starving refugees, principally in Cambodia...
...terrific response to the fast this year, obviously precipitated by the Cambodian debacle," Savannah Shutt, coordinator of the fast for OXFAM, an international relief agency, said. "This has been a very significant increase in participation this year as compared to past years of the fast," she added...
Harvard organizers of the fast expect to raise $5000 from the event and related contributions. Students at Boston College have contributed $11.000 and undergraduates at Tufts University approved a referendum this week to send $5000 to OXFAM from the university's student activity fund...
OXFAM expects to collect more money from contributions and yesterday's fast at both Boston University and Tufts. A group of M I T chaplains expects to raise $1500 and a committee at B.U. hopes to collect between $3000 and $4000 for relief efforts...
...find out in the long run....When it all comes down/We will still come through in the long run." There's no denying that we can now expect more from the Eagles--they've checked out of Hotel California and they've gained a perspective on life in the fast lane. But at present the band is still groping for a new identity to replace the old sound. Their latest album reaffirms the Eagles as one of mainstream rock's best bands. But The Long Run is, ironically, a good album for the short run--better things are sure...