Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 1500 students gave up their dining hall meals last night to participate in a fast sponsored by the Harvard Hunger Action Project to benefit Oxfam America, an international development organization...
...number of students signed up for the fast may be misleading, however. About one fifth of 100 students questioned a the Freshman Union in a random survey last night had signed up for the fast but were eating dinner anyway, taking second servings from friends who were not participating in the fast...
...Hunger Project urged students when they signed up for the fast not to eat out, but a number of restaurants in the Square said last night that their dinner business was heavier than usual...
...column which Hamill bangs out for the New York Daily News three times a week more often than not shows the limits of fast writing. He usually enters the 42nd Street newsroom around noon, fatigued after several hours spent on street corners interviewing people and pressured by the four p.m. deadline. His writing is a kind of hit or miss occupation. He doesn't have the time to make each word mean something. Regardless of the complex emotional feelings he has towards his subject for the day, the copy often rolls off the presses sounding trite and over-simplified...
From where Herr watched, the war was insanity. Nothing made sense; things moved too fast, in a kaleidoscope of killing and death. Generals lied to the public, to their men, to themselves. The press was trapped into disseminating lies, under the guise of objective reporting. Soldiers--young men drafted from America's working and middle classes at 18--had to repress compassion in the face of the war's brutality. The man who handed around a bag of dried ears was only a little more extreme than many others...