Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police released 21 members of the group shortly after their arrest on $100 bail. The rest of the demonstrators remained in jail to call a hunger strike and demand release on personal recognizance...
...political as well as spiritual leader of the country's most impoverished community, he had founded technical schools, sports centers and medical clinics for the poor. He had repeatedly attempted to head off bloody sectarian strife. In 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, he interrupted an antiwar hunger strike to persuade Muslim guerrillas to lift the siege of a Christian village, and thus averted a massacre. Last week many of his followers were praying that Moussa Sadr was carrying out a 1,200-year-old prophecy that Shi'ite Imams who disappear will one day reappear to usher...
Daniel A. Lashof '80, president of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, said his organization's international affairs subcommittee will support the boycott proposal. He said the democratic socialists will work in conjunction with the Hunger Action Project, a student group which is also supporting the boycott...
...practical purposes it has disappeared as nuclear devices--warlike and domestic--become commonplace. America's never-ending march towards technological improvement proceeds apace, so effectively that most people, excepting those sympathetic to the anti-nuke movement, think no more about nuclear power than they do about the world hunger problem...
...aged woman named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 fellow Chicagoans to contribute $50 apiece for five years running. Why? To underwrite a monthly magazine that would publish the best new poetry. As an investment, the project had its drawbacks. First, no one had ever gone broke underestimating America's hunger for good verse. Second, even if acceptable, bill-paying poetry was available, Harriet Monroe seemed singularly ill-equipped to find it. Her own best efforts in the field amounted to little but boosterism: "Hail to thee, fair Chicago! On thy brow/ America, thy mother, lays a crown...