Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, the Government got tough with more than 60 Iraqis charged with a Communist conspiracy against the state. Chief defendant was Yusuf Salman, Moscow-trained Communist leader known to the underground as El Fahd (The Cheetah). Last week El Fahd, pale and thin after an eight-day hunger strike against conditions in his sweltering Baghdad prison, faced his judges in striped pajamas and sandals. Salman fainted in his chair as he heard the sentence: death for him and two codefendants. Thirty-four others were sentenced to prison, 28 were acquitted...
Throughout the trial, Bourin remained completely at his ease. Why was he on a stretcher? Because a hunger strike in prison had sapped his strength. Why had he gone on a hunger strike in the first place? Because "a leader must set an example. As president, I am the official scapegoat of the republic." Later, he presented a piece of paper to the judge. "Your Honor, permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied...
Said Marshall: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world. . . . Such assistance must not be on a piecemeal basis as various crises develop...
...soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says. But an internal hunger (Hecht calls it "creative egoism") kept gnawing at him. He had a look at himself in A Guide for the Bedevilled, a handbook of Hechtian philosophy written...
...Communists were ready to spring one strike after the other. Ramadier's fate-and France's-hung on whether he could water down the flaming disunity that had its origin in hunger...