Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China's history has been one long "period of scarcity." But in the past, China's endemic hunger had most often been the result of war, of natural disasters, of ignorance about how land should be treated and how man could be kept alive. In contrast, China's present hunger is the result of a vast plan. It is, moreover, happening when, for the first time in decades, there is no war in China, when elsewhere poverty is being abolished, and under a regime that has promised to end backwardness and social injustice...
...past," she explained, "man has been preoccupied with limiting negative experiences, such as hunger, cold, and fear, because they were very imminent. In the affluent society, we can take care of the negative things amazingly well, and still have time left over to realize our capacity for positive achievements...
Worker organizations are spear-heading a world-wide revolution against hunger, ignorance, colonialism, and oppression, George Cabot Lodge '50 told the International Relations Council at Quincy House last night. The very survival of the United States depends on the degree to which it associates itself with this revolution, he said...
Algerian Apartheid. The riots afforded disconcerting proof of the F.L.N.'s hold over France's Algerian population. Since 1947, when they were allowed to enter France freely as full citizens, they have flooded into the country in what French sociologists call "the immigration of hunger." Now 350,000 strong (200,000 in Paris alone), they are a vital segment of the labor force, do most of France's back-breaking labor from road building to stevedoring. They live in slums but earn union-scale wages-dazzling by Arab standards. As a result, they not only support...
Avco Corp. came into aerospace (60% of sales) "strictly from hunger'' after taking a beating in consumer appliances, is now a big name in nose cones...