Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer-to draw up his will. He wept in the old abundance, and once he cried, "Kill me now!" He wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced to the captain of the guard that he was going on a hunger strike. "I will fast to death," he vowed. Mossy dramatically refused his breakfast and his lunch. But by supper-time-to the relief of the government-he was bawling for food. "I have only been able to preserve my physical powers with strong food," said the man who ruled Iran...
...defied them. By week's end the flow west had passed 65,000 a day and was still growing. "Why do you come at such risk?" one of the East Germans was asked. "Because they do not want us to come," said he bitterly. What began as a hunger parade had grown into a pilgrimage of protest...
...emancipated hybrid who wore trousers and smoked cigars. But, above all, she was a woman who sought sexual satisfaction as vainly and desperately as her male counterpart, Don Juan. "When I was with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy . . . Desire, in my case, was an ardor of the spirit which paralyzed the power of the senses ... a savage ecstasy which took possession of my brain, and became exclusively concentrated there...
...Communists tried prohibition. They clamped a ban on rail travel to West Berlin, and enforced it with machine pistols in the railroad stations. This precipitated a war of wits: some hunger marchers bought tickets to points beyond West Berlin, then dropped off the trains to collect their food. The Reds temporarily eased up, then put the ban back on. They seemed uncertain how to act: remembering the uprisings of June 17, they dared not push their people too hard. For what people would do to get those ten pounds of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk was a measure...
...Soviet government proclaimed a grandiose offer of $57 million emergency foodstuffs for their zone-burying as deeply as possible the fact that East Germany would be expected to pay for it with manufactured goods. Thus the East German Communists contradicted their own self-righteous insistence that there was neither hunger nor hardship in their half of Germany...