Word: hungered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will leave here determined not only to achieve victory over aggression, but also to win victory over hunger, disease and despair...
...mobs on. The government retaliated by jailing 13 Reds, including E. M. S. Namboodiripad, who was Kerala's chief minister during the 27 months in the mid-1950s when the state was under Communist rule. Even in jail the Reds managed to make trouble by going on a hunger strike, which they vowed would not end until the government provided Kerala with larger rations...
...million workers imported from other countries, there are five job openings for every unemployed person. Not surprisingly, wages rose 10% last year, squeezing profits and depressing capital investment. Though Germany still boasts the world's second highest exports (after the U.S.) and $7 billion in monetary reserves, the hunger of its increasingly well-to-do consumers for imports caused a 1965 net balance-of-payments deficit of more than $350 million. Economist Ludwig Erhard's government is trying to combat the problem by raising some taxes and holding back federal spending...
...suggested that the United States try to alleviate the world hunger problem by emphasizing food and food production in foreign aid programs. The nation's surplus of food grains is almost gone, he said, but the capacity to produce surpluses still remains and may have to be used...
...Ailing Mike Quill, the invective-hurling president of the Transport Workers Union, probably made his Last Hurrah. Faced with division and opposition within his own union, he seemed to hunger for a final epic fight, openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still...