Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step toward Johnson's State of the Union pledge that "every child must have the best education our nation can provide." Even more radically, the proposal skirts the divisive aid-to-parochial-schools issue by allowing what Washington calls "Cardinal Spellman's camel"-that is Roman Catholic hunger for aid-to poke its head under the tent. School districts receiving federal money would buy textbooks and scientific equipment for underprivileged children in public and parochial schools alike, unless this is specifically banned by state law. As many as 90% of the nation's school districts might benefit...
...grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s. Looking back, the hunger for faith in Eliot's early poems now seems obvious and his religious development inevitable. In 1927-the same year he became a British subject-he was confirmed in the Church of England...
...staples as corn, beans and rice. The most successful farms are on large pieces of land, says the C.E.D., pointing out that 50% of Central America's agricultural output comes from such operations. Counseling against land-reform programs to break up going concerns, the report suggests that land hunger can best be satisfied by opening up unused government-owned lands...
...week wore on, however, Buddhist frustration appeared to turn toward dangerous desperation. After his own fast, Tarn Chau, the sect's political coordinator, led 500 monks and nuns in another 24-hour hunger strike; before beginning it, a group of the bonzes prudently tucked into a hearty breakfast outside their pagoda. Then a Buddhist communiqué claimed that Tri Quang, leader of northern and central Buddhists, was continuing his original fast into a sixth day. Quang is said to like fasting, on grounds that it "clears the head...
...convictions of modern church thinkers is that Christianity, in a secular society, is far from being the only instrument of divine action. In fact, God may well be more apparent in a purely nonreligious organization or movement -such as the civil rights revolution or the fight against poverty and hunger in the world-than in the actions of the churches...