Word: foodless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed...
...fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth...
...receivership. The Red Cross fed grapes and milk to the prostrate strikers. Four who disobeyed orders and ate sandwiches grew violently ill. Senor Ramon Perez announced a new mass hunger strike record of 106 hours, added that he had established Mexico City's individual record with 104 sleepless. foodless hours at the microphone. History's longest continuous broadcast thus came...
...Statehood, Professor Clemente Pereda who hunger-struck for independence (TIME, April 9) demanded the formation of an Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...