Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What are we supposed to do?" asked aggrieved expatriate Frigenti. "Form another mobsters' syndicate-or eat each other?" Instead, he offered to lead 500 gangster exiles in a 140-mile hunger march from Naples to Rome for a demonstration before the U.S. embassy to seek re-entry into the U.S. "In America," Frigenti proclaimed, "these people were used to handling thousands and thousands of dollars. They drove in powerful automobiles...
...lovesick young artist was on a hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
Barak's fast was a success in the sense that it stirred public opinion and seemed certain to draw the Knesset's attention to the whole issue of religious marriages. But in threatening to kill himself in defense of his position, Hunger Striker Barak had offended many Israelis who believe in less dramatic forms of debate. "The straightforward and democratic way of revising laws is by tabling a proposal before the Knesset," wrote Attorney General Haim j Cohen. "Except in times of emergency j . . . there can be no other way, and I pray there never will be another...
...form" will soon go out to WHO representatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As the doctors wound up their conference last week, Denmark's H. C. Gram thanked their Paris hosts in a speech based on the old, long list: Paris, he said, "saved us from E933" (hunger, thirst and exposure), so that in future, delegates would "instantly suppress 310" (anxiety) when called on to return to Paris. Not participating in the conference were Iron Curtain doctors, who abandoned WHO in 1949, possibly embarrassed by E985 on the list (execution...
...obviously gone out of their cries for a "parley at the summit." Cracked France's Georges Bidault: "Any conference with a man on the verge of disappearance has no urgent character." Caught short with their favorite thesis that the U.S. is rattling H-bombs while the Russians hunger for peace, India's newspapers could summon up only honest, slack-jawed surprise at what the Times of India called Russia's "accents of unbending hostility...