Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest, designed to draw attention to the rising incidence of cancer in areas of heavy pesticide use, is part of a nationwide relay effort, in which celebrities, politicians and students take turns fasting. UFW President Caesar Chavez began the fast this summer with a 36-day hunger strike before passing the protest effort to the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Twenty-five years ago, President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his War on Poverty. According to his rhetoric, there would be no more hunger, homelessness or destitution anywhere in America. The poor were Americans just like everyone else, except they weren't sharing in the American dream. It was vogue to talk about the poor; poverty was seen as the evil, but the "poor" were...
Proponents of expansion argue that the success of college basketball is an indication of a national hunger for more pro teams. If the NCAA Tournament can have 64 teams, why shouldn't pro basketball have...
...film is an adventure too, a tightrope dance between sociology and sentiment. Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings...
Cooper said he biked 120 miles from Los Angeles to San Diego in a similar fundraising effort three years ago, raising $2500 to fight hunger in Africa. He predicted his current effort will raise about $2000 with continued luck...