Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last words. He then repaired to his private study to rest and prepare for the next day's passage at arms. Two hours later, his wife found him dead of a heart attack. His heart had been weakened by the stress of decades of persecution and by his hunger strikes and their inevitable consequence: forced feedings and deliberately inadequate medical care. "We won't let you die, but we will make you an invalid," a doctor told...
...heart disease. Word reached Moscow's dissident community that Bonner's lips and fingernails had turned blue and that Sakharov could hardly take a few steps without being winded. When the Soviets denied Bonner permission to go abroad for an open-heart operation, her husband went on a hunger strike. The authorities relented, but the ailing Sakharov remained under house arrest until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev summoned him back to Moscow. Sakharov's first words as a free man were a demand for the liberation of all remaining Soviet political prisoners...
...Viet Nam vets, Stone and Kovic. "I chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real tight. And what's wrong with that...
...degrees F) kept the team tent-bound for 13 days. Said Steger when he reached the Patriot Hills campsite in early November: "There were some pretty black moments when I could see the desperation of other explorers like Scott." The British adventurer and his party perished of cold and hunger after reaching the South Pole...
These were not the actions of self-centered people. Hunger striking by thousands is not the action of self-centered people. Deliberately defying government orders, threats and, finally, martial law for six weeks is not the action of self-centered people...