Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story: To Feed the Hungry, Act Speedily and Rightly, for People are Dying, and Outlaws. Outlaws describes an area called Partinicio, where the population's "650 years at school ... is balanced by a total of more than 3000 years spent in prison." As in the rest of Sicily, hunger and unemployment drive men to crime, and Dolci says it is typical that, though four and a half billion lira were spent in nine years on police measures, "no one has lifted a finger to utilize the waters of a neighboring stream which, properly harnessed, would provide work for everyone...
...natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread as it is this year. Signs posted in eating establishments blare out the message: 'You don't need your "whole" ration. Eat no more than will keep the hunger away.' Mess halls compete for the 'Red Star' which is awarded to the establishment that has managed to serve its patrons even less than did its neighbors...
...personal protest, I intend to boycott the meet. In fact, I'm considering going on a three weeks' hunger strike. Stephen Potter...
...refuge there, the number of guerrillas fighting Castro from the Escambray has swelled to some 1 ,000 men. By last week whispered tales seeping out of Cuba told of pitched, no quarter battles in the Escambray and of hospitals overflowing with wounded. The reality was far different: fear, fatigue, hunger and boredom, punctuated occasionally by wild, often accidental fire fights in the wilderness...
...weakened but determined University Senior enters the sixth day of his hunger strike today in protest against the imprisonment of Mrs. Olgs Ivinskaya, an intimate friend of the late Boris Pasternak. Yesterday, Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 of Dudley House and Brighton, described his ordeal as "not too terribly difficult...