Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the late-night munchies strike, Harvard students usually flock to the fast-food places around the Square. Besides Elsie's, Tommy's and others of that genre, a variety of pizza and sub shops cash in on the nocturnal hunger pangs...
...collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently to the music (perhaps taking downers), then suddenly (probably after swilling a bottle of wine), sway ecstatically forward toward the performers. In contrast, the audience for Balladeer James Taylor, or the country-rock group Poco, whose music has crisp patterns...
...death of Michael Gaughan, 24, an Irish Republican Army member and Catholic Ulster's newest martyr, in an English prison could have proved the spark. Sentenced in 1971 to seven years for conspiring to rob a London bank for the I.R.A., Gaughan began a hunger strike March 30 as a show of solidarity with two other I.R.A. hunger strikers, Dolours and Marion Price (see box page 38). His weight had dropped from 160 Ibs. to 84 Ibs. The British government said that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that Michael died after prison doctors injured...
...addition to the Price sisters, three other imprisoned Ulster Catholics were on hunger strikes last week. The death of any of these potential martyrs could trigger a new wave of violence. Shortly before the sisters ended their fast, spokesmen for the I.R.A. were warning of "devastating consequences" and a "terrible revenge" unless the two women were transferred to an Ulster jail. British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who had to make the decision, appeared genuinely tortured by his dilemma-whether to give in under pressure or let the women die. In a statement issued by the Home Office, he clearly hinted...
...unjustly prosecuted and tried: that they received no legal advice until four days after their arrest, that authorities purposely shifted the trial from London to the more conservative town of Winchester. Their supporters have also charged that prison officials brutalized the sisters by force-feeding them during their long hunger strike. Force-feeding -in which a person's mouth is clamped open while a greased tube is inserted through his nose and a "complan" solution of iron, orange and milk-soaked glucose is poured directly into the stomach-usually causes acute vomiting...