Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regimented, their faces are set and purposeful. In uni on they sing: Marching! Marching! Marching! Marching ! Rise the bitter Rise the hateful Rise the needy to our call We shall struggle We shall conquer One the class to rule for all. Pain and suffering our weapons Fear and hunger lead to hate We'll divide, confuse and conquer Victory is our fate! The arriving delegates from I Love Me are not dismayed by such displays of militancy, and they attempt to convert Odioso & Co. to democracy. First man to speak up is Secretary of State Muddle...
...impressive beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave. On his third try, he escaped...
...fiction writers to TV and developing new ones. Five well-known U.S. novelists, including James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, are already interested. NBC also plans to put a dozen dramatists on staff at regular salaries, hoping to prove that security can quicken the dramatic muse even more than hunger...
...young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis-a friend of the human race," and wants to give Taurum to the world to conquer hunger...
Last week the hunger strike ended (after 152 hours, five minutes) and the battle moved to the National Assembly. A majority of the legislators backed the married monks, passed a resolution demanding that the government let them alone unless there was further bloodshed or property damage. But President Syngman Rhee paid them no mind. The married monks must go on schedule, he decreed: "They are following the Japanized principle of Buddhism." (Some Japanese sects of Buddhism allow monks to marry...