Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nguyen Huong's death caused Buddhist protest demonstrations and hunger strikes all over the country. While the furor over his death rages, Buddhist leaders have ruled out further suicides until they can again reap the full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...
...dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger, thirst, eat, drink, walk...
...percentage of the student leaders in Latin America come from humble homes. The capitalism they know has many times only demonstrated poverty and hunger. Generally the only travel they have done has been to a local beach or tourist place in their country. All they know about the States is through newspaper, cinema etc. This information is not for them an axiomatic truth, as communist propaganda isn't for them either...
...Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith...
...Seduction. Though his enemies gibed at him as "Playboy of the West End World," Foot claims that Bevan was not "seduced by the aristocratic embrace." Indeed, he had one quality rare in a politician of any party: he did not personally hunger for power or hanker for the managerial role in human affairs. Criticism was his long suit. Intellectual disdain kept his far-left course from Communist involvement. After a visit to Russia, he quipped, "We were slaves to the past; they were slaves o the future." And when war came, he demanded that the "undertaker" Chamberlain go, and called...