Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with one five-minute bathroom break. Only water was served. "Before we won, we served Cokes," said Carter, the closest he came to humor. Reports one participant, Economist Arthur Okun: "He is totally able to banish anything, any mortal concerns, like a crick in the backside or thirst or hunger or anything else." Adds Economist Walter Heller: "We call him 'Iron Pants...
...special trains, 300 buses and charter flights from all over the country. It was an excited, happy crowd of all ages, of men and women, many wearing tri-color emblems or buttons that read: CHIRAC, I BELIEVE IN HIM (Chirac, J'Y Crois). Drawn by the old French hunger for strong chieftains, they had come more for the man himself than for the party. Said a truck driver, beaming: "If we are called, it's because we are needed." An old farmer remembered: "We stopped the Reds in 1924 this...
...pardon-board hearing took place, like some futuristic fantasy, on television. At 9 a.m. Gilmore was led in, his tattooed wrists manacled. He wore a white prison uniform, and he looked somewhat gaunt from his twelve-day hunger strike (he has lost about 201bs...
...nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
...Harvard Hunger Action Group organized the Oxfam fast at Harvard, Dones said, because it wanted to do something about world hunger problems and Oxfam was the most efficient group to work with...