Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have much to do with the sexy, healthy, multi-orgasmic highly successful Australian woman who jog, drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one for Western audiences who can afford to dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis for feminism; most important, this claim...
Instead, Reagan delivered a poignant and graceful televised tribute to "the Challenger Seven" late Tuesday afternoon. "They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths," he said. "They wished to serve, and they did--they served all of us." Addressing himself directly to the nation's schoolchildren who had been watching, Reagan added, "I know it's hard to understand that sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery, it's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons...
Bruises and hunger aside, I'm not altogether unhappy with our new Beast. It saves us hours of tedious intellectual discussion, promotes easy stereotypes, and saves wear and tear on heavy tools. Still, I really miss the good old days when I could drink my morning coffee without being labeled a puppet of Brazilian coffee monopolists...
COAST TO COAST ON MAY 25 TO COMBAT HUNGER IN THE U.S. A TWO-MINUTE Super Bowl spot for Hands Across America features Hands Co-Chairs Bill Cosby and Lily Tomlin, a host of impoverished children and the song We Are the World. NBC contributed the air time. Said NBC Sports Executive Producer Michael Weisman: "The Super Bowl is America's undeclared holiday, and whether you're rich or poor, everybody comes together. Hands Across America is trying to create the same feeling...
Finally, consider the other extreme. The hypothetical legislator didn't know he or she might be abducted and forced by hunger to go on the 'payroll' of a lucrative prostitution and pornography ring. He or she didn't expect to be forced to have sex daily, with strangers, under the unblinking eye of a movie camera. He or she didn't anticipate being beaten and drugged, tied up and raped, on a regular and profit-motivated basis...