Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housewife today wants her food completely prepared for her before she buys it, does not this add considerably to the cost of food in the supermarket? Furthermore, as a nation, we still enjoy the lowest food costs (in terms of annual income of consumers) of any industrial nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income...
...kids all week. According to Psychiatric Social Worker Virginia Satir, the average family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together. Studies show that father absence has baneful effects (especially on boys), ranging from low self-esteem to hunger for immediate gratification and susceptibility to group influence. Hippies commonly flee from father-absent homes in which despairing mothers either overindulge their children or, as surrogate achievers, overpressure them. "The big thing," a college-freshman acidhead explains, "is that my father makes more of his work than it really is, leaving...
...threatened to arrest him as a subversive. When a local radio station canceled a Catholic program and read an army-composed editorial against the bishop instead, Dom Waldir drew up and had printed a new list of Brazil's "seven capital sins," which included low salaries, unemployment, hunger, social castes and disease. The army confiscated all copies and arrested two priests who were distributing them...
Space to Spare. An hour later, Washkansky regained consciousness and tried to talk. So carefully isolated from possible infection that even his wife Ann was persuaded not to visit him for four days, he showed improvement day by day. After 36 hours he complained of hunger and ate a typical hospital meal, including a soft-boiled egg. As a further guard against infection, the doctors dosed him with antibiotics. His donated heart, healthy and compact, jumped around somewhat uneasily in the cavity left by his own enlarged heart, but this space would soon shrink naturally. The heart gradually slowed...
...feel out of touch with students have turned to the administration, but have been disappointed. "I would hope that student opinion would go into planning for the College, but I'm afraid it hasn't," worried Mrs. Gray, who sat on the Ad Hoc Committee set up after the hunger strike...