Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lingering Hunger. The subcommittees are understandably perplexed about why, despite U.S. agricultural abundance and food-relief programs, some Americans still go hungry. It was the Senate group, chaired by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark, that visited the Mississippi Delta in April and reported "emergency" hunger conditions. The following month, in a survey commissioned by the Field Foundation, a team of physicians examined more than 600 Mississippi Negro children and found "obvious evidence of severe malnutrition." Two weeks ago, Freeman undertook his own "look, learn and listen" excursion to Mississippi and Alabama as part of a four-state tour to study rural...
...just hauled them out of a tramp car where they had sunk temporary roots, and pushed them into a new Formica wonder in a housing development. They run their, lives not by push-cards, but by a series of such disorderly urges as lust, the desire to kill, hunger, and pressure on the bladder. And they choose to ignore the Health Services, the schools, the police, and the rules in general...
...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...
Most surprising is Galbraith's disenchantment with industrial growth, which, after all, is not an end but a means. Only by growth can the world's economies produce the chemicals and machines to alleviate hunger, the materials to provide adequate housing for all, and the means by which people can earn more to spend on leisure, culture, travel, medicine-and books by economists...
After several days of meetings, the girls decided that a hunger strike was their most efficient means of protest, since--unlike a sit-in--it would not interfere with the College's business. On midnight Wednesday, May 10, they stopped eating...