Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 1500 students gave up their dining hall meals last night to participate in a fast sponsored by the Harvard Hunger Action Project to benefit Oxfam America, an international development organization...
...Hunger Project urged students when they signed up for the fast not to eat out, but a number of restaurants in the Square said last night that their dinner business was heavier than usual...
...Harvard Hunger Action Project, a student groupworking to reduce starvation overseas, has organized similar fasts for the last three years...
...move through the countless metal doors. Past the place where visitors have the insides of their shoes checked for contraband, past the detectors, the armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy--inmates...
...apparent in most of the African countries, and my experience of living in a village of about 20 people and three bamboo huts was an aweinspiring one. At Kadingbili, I saw the life of a people that have never been exposed to the western way of life. Death, disease, hunger, poverty, ignorance and superstition were visible everywhere; like those signs in South Africa that read, "Reserved for Whites Only." Here, the invisible signs read "Reserved for Africans Only." I lived in their midst, shared their hardships, their laughters and tears, their feeble hopes and doubtful frustrations, and their deplorable situation...