Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members will elect the nation's President and Vice President. The occasion, which marked China's precarious transition from one-party regime to parliamentary government, was not without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were under party censure for getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly as a token of protest...
After 19 hours the hunger strikers finally permitted themselves to be taken home by policemen. Tired-looking Chiang Kai-shek welcomed the delegates and then, in a mildly tolerant gesture, returned to his residence to have tea with the "irregulars." The day before, the Generalissimo had attended the last meeting of the People's Political Council (which for ten years had functioned as China's provisional Parliament). In his farewell address, Chiang had some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward...
After six months of hunger, the remaining 32 needed six months to return to normal. During the first three months of rehabilitation their bad table manners and bad study habits showed little improvement; some men actually became more depressed and irritable than during semi-starvation. As the effects of starvation wore off, each man lost his sense of close identity with his group and began worrying about his own personal plans for a normal future...
...Irving Potash, vice president of the C.I.O.'s International Fur & Leather Workers Union, member of the Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...
...meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud of Unknowing, which you do not understand. . . . Strike upon that thick Cloud of Unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love-and do not leave it no matter what happens...