Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late, the hunger pangs have eased. Grain production is up from a post-Leap year low of 160 million tons to 186 million tons this year, and another 5,000,000 tons a year are being imported from the West...
...with a declamation about control of nuclear weapons. "Any man," cried Lyndon, "who shares control of such enormous power must remember that 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " Hunger. As the campaign progressed, Johnson took to carrying around a sheaf of reports from pollsters; he pulled them out and leafed through them at the slightest provocation. His walks on the White House grounds, with reporters chasing in full tilt, took on the aspect of a circus performance. His wife...
...Royal Bed. The "hospital" was, in fact, the ranch near León where the sick were sent to die and rebellious girls were sent for discipline. "Some died of hunger, some of sickness, and others couldn't take the punishment with the stick," admitted one helper. The sisters' undertaker described how she "sprinkled the bodies with kerosene and set them on fire. Then we would call our gravedigger." A girl told how she was left alone without medical care while giving birth to her child, which then died and was buried in the ranch yard. The most...
Siles accused Paz of personalisimo. At election time, Siles joined Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the tin miners, in a hunger strike, hoping to dramatize his thesis that Paz was becoming a dictator. When that failed, he set out to organize an opposition...
...Human Bondage. When a Hollywood actress begins to hunger for juicier roles, she often ends up playing a tart. Sadie Thompson or maybe Nana. Or sometimes Mildred, the strumpet waitress who dishes out the spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure...