Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Percent. No one expected Russians or their satellites to go hungry, or to start a rebellion over the price of pork chops. But there was a deeper, less obvious connection between hunger and history. In the years following World War II, when the Communists marked their greatest gains, their ideological appeal was based on the "revolution of rising expectations." They promised food to the hungry, a better life to all. The great turning point came when ideology had to be replaced by performance. "Communism as an ideology," wrote Milovan Djilas five years ago in The New Class, "has mainly...
...even removed the table from my bedroom to discourage me from drawing," recalls De Diego. "One day I found some of my drawings, and he had written all over them, destroying every one: 'You are a Bohemian and this will be the cause of your dying of hunger.' " So Julio stuffed a few clothes into a suitcase, left the house for good, and, true to the romantic pattern of art biographies, became a successful painter. His brother inherited the business, gambled it away, and killed himself...
...meat, as against 46 minutes in the U.S. The political consequences of these figures, at home and abroad, might be vast. They suggest that Russia cannot afford to produce both guns and butter. They also show that the revolutionary regime, whose basic appeal was to the "masses" and their hunger for a better life, today still cannot fully satisfy that hunger in its own land...
...hunger but fear last week drove Europeans by the thousands to flee their homes and jobs in Algeria. The refugees jammed the Algiers docks for ships bound for France. Laden with suitcases, blankets, heavy clothing, thousands of others rushed to Algiers airport, where French planes took off at the rate of nearly one an hour. Since April 1, nearly 50,000 Europeans have fled...
With its population already a bloated 3,250,000, Hong Kong can no longer absorb the steady flow of mainlanders who pour into the city daily. As Red China's hunger worsened, the flow became a flood...