Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convinced that "there has never been a case where you could have greater sympathy with the people." Donald C MacDonald, Jr '61, of Dudley House and Brighton, today begins a projected week long hunger strike to protest the imprisonment of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, long-time friend of the late Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak...
Ever since Tibet's brave but abortive revolt against Red China in 1959, refugees have straggled across the border into India by twos and threes. Last month they came by the scores and even the hundreds. They were driven by hunger. The Chinese Communists have brought something Tibet has not known within living memory: famine...
...writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make a new beginning; his lovely humility, his hunger for laughter that is not cruel, his desire for a square deal, his loyalty to friendship, to love and to truth; his sense of shame for the other man who cheats him, or lets him down; his hankering for absolute simplicity, his passion for justice, and yet his greater passion...
...each Sikh dropped a coin or a bill in an offering box, then peered through a tiny glass window. Inside, on a hard mattress, lay Sant Fateh Singh, 50-year-old Sikh holy man. While doctors and disciples stood anxious watch, Sant Fateh Singh was carrying on a hunger strike. Its aim: to compel the Indian government to create a separate linguistic state in the Punjab, traditional home of the Sikhs...
...third year in a row, Red China's agricultural output had fallen disastrously behind target. And with 15 million more mouths to feed, Red China would be hard put to hold off hunger this winter...