Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work for good manners but for acceptance of the physically abnormal. I have worked through my years at the News to demonstrate that the mind is always supreme over the body. At least this is certainly true in my case. And to press the point, I have often undergone hunger strikes for many days, while continuously editing and keeping in touch with sources. As you know, I still pass out frequently while editing stories, eating a meal or doing things that I cannot mention without offending Christie's very admirable sensibilities...
...Methodist ministers began to collect unsold potatoes from local farmers and distribute them to food centers. Since then, the Potato Project has sprouted in 47 states and has shipped a total of 56 million lbs. of spuds (the equivalent of 165 million servings) to 250 anti- hunger agencies...
Chatting in her trailer between scenes, Close expresses hunger for more roles like Alex, which she considers a breakthrough: "The first woman I've played who is out of control, who emotionally runs the gamut -- the first real, full-blooded role I've had." She adds that Attraction has also liberated her personal style. "Now I can wear that black leather jacket from the film, or those slinky, low-cut things," she laughs, "and feel really good about myself...
Even before the stock-market crash last month evoked fears of a recession, some 20 million people in the U.S. were going hungry on a regular basis. So says Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America, a report released last week by the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, a public health advocacy group. Using government figures and its own survey of some 25 depressed areas in eight states, the task force concluded that despite steady economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely...
...group's director, Larry Brown, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that while hunger in the U.S. is nowhere near Third World levels, poor families regularly "miss meals, cut down and go without for a couple of days." The Agriculture Department attacked the report's accuracy, saying that food-stamp spending has risen 12% since...