Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physiologists are even changing their minds about what hunger is. Stomach contractions, the old scapegoat, do not explain hunger, because a man gets hungry even when his whole stomach has been removed. At Harvard's School of Public Health, Biochemist Jean Mayer has found evidence that "feeling hungry" depends on the amount of sugar in the blood. He says this goes up after eating, and the eater no longer feels hungry. But a few hours later it goes down, and he wants food. (In diabetics, the changes are more complicated...
...overbearing Argentines, most Chileans, beaten down by 15 years of inflation and ruinously high living costs, are probably willing to try any sort of economic collaboration that might bring some Argentine wheat and meat to their markets. Said Perón's propaganda man, Raúl Mende: "Hunger is our ally...
...actually waltzed with them dozens of times on the sea floor, and he has movies to prove it. Only once was Cousteau in danger from a shark; and that was when the blood-spoor of a dying whale was near, and the sharks were half-crazy with hunger and excitement. Cousteau scared the beast away by banging him on the nose with his underwater camera. A far greater nuisance, he says, is fire coral, which on contact produces a severe burning rash...
...Amur River to set up the industrial city of Komsomolsk. Without proper food or clothing, the march of the Young Communists turns into a pointless sacrifice; Soloviev's description of how they follow the Amur, dig holes in the ground for shelter, and perish from cold and hunger, is a masterpiece of reporting...
...Only once before in modern Indian history has a hunger striker died: in 1929, Jyatin Das, an Indian revolutionary protesting against British jail treatment, perished after 65 days without food...