Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have seen many people die of starvation, and as I myself have felt the pangs of hunger on several occasions during the last World War, I pray the Lord that this great country, which is offering me hospitality, may forever be faced with the "dismal prospect" [of the biggest harvest in history! with which Mr. Freeman has to deal at present...
...Gimmicks? To feed the hunger, the papers apparently decided that the best diet was the mixture as before. The News, with the biggest circulation in the U.S. (2,055,266), and the Times, with the biggest reputation, stuck with proven recipes. The others promised major changes that turned out. at best, to be bits of fancy garnishing...
...conference that the U.S. attorney general's office had asked for a moratorium on their direct-action fight. Shuttlesworth turned down the request, saying, "Many of us are willing to die, if necessary, on the streets of Birmingham." He stated that the next major step would be a mass hunger strike if all else fails...
...crowd included kilted Scotsmen and old-age pensioners, apprentices, mill girls and grizzled steelworkers. Most came from the northern shipbuilding and steelmaking cities of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the misery of the 1930s is not forgotten. Last week, by contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual...
...Premier Inonu per formed a classic slow burn, letting the Justice crowd have its fun for six days. At last, the exasperated authorities could take no more, sent Bayar off to a hospital. Just a physical examination, the cops assured the old man, who promptly went on a hunger strike. A guard was put on the door of his hospital room, and the news soon spread that Bayar's parole had been revoked. The end of the trail might well be the jailhouse again, for at week's end the public prosecutor began proceedings against him for talking...