Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after Vargas had promised to roll back food prices, living costs had climbed 30%, and 250,000 Sao Paulo workers quit their factories in hunger-sparked strikes. Even in the midst of a record coffee boom, Vargas' erratic economic policies weakened the currency, drained the treasury, piled up nearly a $2 billion deficit in overseas trade, and almost pricepegged Brazil's No. 1 product out of the U.S. coffee market. Driving desperately to win back working-class support for the 1954 congressional elections. Vargas recently doubled Brazil's minimum wage, despite ominous growls by the army...
...Only at the end did Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering at your side. When hunger beats at.your door, you will feel inside you the energy to fight for yourselves and your children . . . Each drop of my blood will be an immortal call to your conscience...
...confess my faith has cost me nothing . . . I have never been hungry. I have not been in prison. I have never had a stone thrown at me . . . I was born in a free land . . . I bow . . . before my colleagues . . . who know the meaning of prison cells, of fetters, of hunger...
...soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off the torrent for three hours. "People are confident," cried Peking's New China News Agency nervously, "that everything has been foreseen. There will be no panic, no hunger, nothing like the bad old days when there was no help from above...
mission saw was a land of "poverty and hunger," of "barely . . . food enough to keep life in the people," where "vast areas . . . are desert." Though 80% of its 44 million depend for a living on the soil, less than a twentieth of the land is cultivated, and only a tenth of its potential realized. It is backward and unstable, a menace to itself and the world's peace...