Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honors in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe, in those days an up-and-coming public school. His learning project during the period was gentlemanly idling. With enormous industry and almost no money, he taught himself to hunt, shoot, fish, and handle falcons. He mocked this hunger for accomplishment in a book, written between hunt-club meets, called Burke's Steerage, or the Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away), but it became his passion; it had the advantage...
...that General Electric Company stresses its role in the fight against air pollution (it builds filtering systems), that Westinghouse Electric Company tells students and others about its work in running a Job Corps Center, and that Corn Products Company asks for '100 college graduates who realize that hunger is the most urgent problem in the world today,' an article explains. This is necessary, but hardly sufficient. Liberal-minded undergraduates are certainly concerned with the "social conscience" and the need to contribute to society, but when it comes to choosing a career there are far more important, and more personal, facts...
...decision to allow any senior to move off-campus came late last January, after a year-long debate between students and the Radcliffe administration. Last spring, 27 Climes staged a five-day hunger strike to protest the non-resident quotas...
...REPORTS: "HUNGER IN AMERICA" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition...
...burdens of the immediate future will be taxing enough if we would assume them. Dr. King was planning a Poor People's March on Washington, an act of creative disorder, deliberately contingently disruptive. Will we move with the hungry, those tired at last of the preconditions of their hunger, the conditions of their indignity? Or will we watch...