Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free economy, minimum government control, and reduction of taxes as a means of stimulating investment for expansion and growth; however, and this is as it should be, private capital is invested only in enterprises that have pecuniary profit-making expectations. Returns for investments in schools, housing, conquest of hunger and disease and exploration of the cosmos are not fast or attractive enough...
Neighborhood Theater. To create a neighborhood theater was Joan Littlewood's ambition as far back as the early '30s. when she was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. With a working-class background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There...
...failing, since none of America's hemispheric allies will go along with it. And this failure is a good thing, too, for the purpose of the embargo was just what Castro said it was: an attempt to profit by the misery of a people and make them submit through hunger...
...mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women's suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain's women began to win the vote in 1918, Sylvia was not long without other causes. She flirted with the triumphant Russian Bolsheviks, fought fascism, ground out radical books and pamphlets...
...food called Sustagen. A mix of skim-milk powder, soybean flour, corn oil, minerals and vitamins, Sustagen was designed for hospital patients unable to eat solid foods. It worked so well at giving patients the illusion of having eaten a solid meal and killing off between-meal hunger pangs that last year Mead Johnson decided to call it Metrecal and put it out as a weight-reducing food. The chief change was to recommend a limit of 900 calories (i.e., one 8-oz. can, dry weight) of Metrecal...