Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statesmanship." If steadfastness is a criterion, then Freeman, now 54, is no statesman. His mutant career has led through the House of Commons, Fleet Street journalism, television and diplomacy. The son of a well-to-do lawyer, Schoolboy Freeman was converted to socialism by the sight of Depression hunger marchers in 1931. As a young Member of Parliament, he was spotted as a comer by no less a judge than Winston Churchill. But in 1951, he joined another ambitious young Laborite named Harold Wilson in resigning noisily from the socialist administration to protest Britain's rocketing defense spending...
While Governor of the state (1959-63), the junior Senator admitted, he had supported "the public policy of covering up the problem of hunger" in order to attract new industry to South Carolina. Hollings told the committee of the misery he had encountered there on a recent ten-day tour of impoverished counties. "There is hunger in South Carolina," said Hollings. "There is pellagra, a disease supposedly nonexistent in this country. [There are] rickets and scurvy." He was especially shaken by the high incidence of parasitic worms among the rural, poor, who often live without even the most primitive forms...
...film for that reason; but this particular portrayal is extremely funny. Of course the love is not the normal give-and-take love of the mental-hygiene textbooks. Instead of turning the play--which Marcus subtitled a comedy--into one of your modern tedious exposes of shallowness and love-hunger, Aldrich has created a flawed but solid delight...
...charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security. The President's second step was his promise that the emergency regulations would be canceled this week. Despite the fact that he had been freed, Bhutto greeted that announcement with skepticism. He had just begun a protest hunger strike, and he vowed that he would continue his fast until the regulations were indeed withdrawn...
...campuses, but in general there has actually been less violence in the universities this school year than last." (An apology for the story on Wisconsin on the front page.) "The rich may be getting richer but the poor are certainly not getting poorer." (An apology for the series on hunger in America on the front page.) "The main thing in America is not the political activities but the nonpolitical majority that just goes on acting, and the quality of hope in them is too deep to be lost in a generation." (An apology for the whole front page...