Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then why does hunger hang on? Some of those who face malnutrition -or even starvation-simply do not understand how to use existing programs, says Freeman. Others, especially rural Negroes in the Deep South, are victims of the indifference and prejudice of local officials who, according to the six Field Foundation doctors, use programs "selectively, politically, and with obvious racial considerations in mind...
...control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy, renounced Egypt's claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into war and defeat, and mortgaged his country as a pawn of the Soviet power struggle against the West...
...whose sake does she break the law? "For nobody. For myself." Even though she knows Creon will remove the dirt, she also knows that "what a person can do, a person ought to do." It is said that mankind's strongest drives are sex, hunger, and self-preservation. But there are some people for whom conscience is just as strong, or stronger--at times terrifyingly strong. Antigone is one such; she prefers to die rather than to try to live with a guilty conscience and with compromise...
...spokesman for the Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment, and Poverty said yesterday there was "no evidence" that the Administration would take action to alleviate severe hunger in Mississippi...
...confronted Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and other officials with demands for immediate relief measures. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) asked that a state of emergency be declared in Mississippi. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) called for a Public Health Service inquiry into the extent of hunger in the United States...