Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical idealist, beefy Danilo Dolci quit his career as an architect to come to Sicily's "triangle of hunger" in 1952. He battled hard against poverty, unemployment and disease and, in the process, has stirred Italy's conscience. "In the last two years," he says, "more than 2 billion cubic meters of water have been wasted in the sea in western Sicily alone. Figuring what the land would have been worth if it was watered, that's a loss of $160 million-while poverty continues to erode hundreds of thousands of families." At week...
...have come to the day when a piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings nor for the nation of which we are part. We have been given pieces, but unlike bread, a slice of which does diminish hunger, a piece of liberty no longer suffices. Freedom is like life. You cannot be given life in installments. You cannot be given breath but not body, nor a heart but no blood vessels. Freedom is one thing-you have it all, or you are not free...
...first, Melbourne dabbled reluctantly in politics. He much preferred books and parties. But at 51, after several torpid years in Parliament, he was brought into a Whig Cabinet as Home Secretary. He snapped out of his indolence by harshly putting down hunger riots in the south of England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow...
...Hunger was still Red China's most pressing problem. Refugees from Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...
There was another changing circumstance too. When the pent-up hunger for hard goods created by World War II was finally sated, many U.S. manufacturers found themselves stuck with slackened production lines, and to keep their plants busy abandoned their insistence on Fair Trade pricing of their products in order to get the discounters' fat orders. At that point, the old-line department stores decided that they had to do more than jeer at the discounters. No longer could a discounter send his customers over to a department store for free demonstration of an appliance or to a music...