Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirst will.kill a man faster than hunger, but when he had nothing else, Bombard drank small amounts of sea water and felt fine. Apart from rain, however, his basic drink was the juice he squeezed out of the fish he caught. Bombard proved his thesis but not without tremendous suffering. Never did he underestimate the hostility of the sea. He knew that at any moment a single wave could have ended his life, but his frail craft never capsized although mountainous waves sometimes flooded it. He fished and ruminated and read Aeschylus and Spinoza. He was never bored, but perhaps...
...roamed into cities-20.000 into Mukden and Anshan in one month-to get jobs and food. In Peking, guards had to drive away 5,000 peasants. Chou En-lai himself unhappily gave the lie at home to the Communists' efforts to pretend to the outside world that the hunger had not come: "People in famine areas should be called upon ... to collect such substitute food as wild herbs for using as food during the period of shortage...
Lesson from Lincoln. "Mankind hungers for peace," he told the publishers. "This universal hunger must be satisfied. Either the nations will build a cooperative peace, or, one by one, they will be forced to accept an imposed peace, now sought by the Communist powers as it was by Hitler." Free men can have such a peace, he said, only if they will cooperate: "It is not a question of turning the press, radio, television and newsreels into media of sugar-coated propaganda, 'selling' America to the Frenchman, France to the German, and Britain to the American...
After more arrests, hunger strikes, and "Prison Special" tours of the country, in 1919, President Wilson gave in, along with a number of hitherto reluctant Senators, and an amendment passed both Houses by the required two-thirds vote. By 1920 the necessary three-fourths of the states had ratified the amendment which provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account...
...This Tormented Land." One after another, the remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any civilized nation this side of the Iron Curtain . . . absolutely illegal. These men are not criminals. They are victims.This is a mockery...