Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child she bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle...
...vague and general terms that gave little indication of when and if the proposals would be accepted. Ethos re-presented the proposals to the president with the stipulation that "if a satisfactory response is not received at this time, Ethos will (before members of all press agencies) begin a hunger strike to continue until a satisfactory answer is received." The following day the administration accepted all of the recommendations...
...restrained response of black students this fall can be explained partly by the fact that most of the more militant blacks had tired of confronting the administration. Those who had threatened a hunger strike the previous spring were now seniors. They had been pressing Wellesley for change for three years, and they were not eager to invest time and energy in an institution in which they were to spend only one more year...
Miss Wiliamson's remarks were corroborated by a white student who, expressing her own indignation, commented, "The hunger strike threat [of the previous spring] got people...
...Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South, and relations with huge agricultural complexes like the California grape companies and their employees. His book, Overcoming World Hunger, could indicate a general concern for problems like these. In the Post Office Winton Blount will probably lend added support to the recent business advisory committee recommendations to turn the Post Office into a public corporation...