Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price spiral is also sustained by a vastly increased public interest in art. More than 175 million Americans visited museums last year. Americans are better educated and more intrigued than ever with objects of lasting value. They share a hunger for possessions that have not been stamped out en masse for a homogenized society. They are beginning to emulate upper-crust Europeans, who have always invested disposable income in tangibles. Says Sotheby's Wilson: "We live in such difficult times that the art of the past is somehow reassuring. It can even be an alternative to religion." For many...
...soldiers saw widespread hunger. Corpses of those who had died from starvation were a common sight along the roads, and children sometimes came to beg food from the Vietnamese soldiers, who occasionally threw them scraps. All three deserters were adamant in testifying they had seen no food from international relief agencies distributed to hungry Cambodian civilians. Said Tran: "I don't think the North Vietnamese will tire of battling to conquer Cambodia, even if it takes another year or two." His fellow deserter Van added: "The North Vietnamese are unhappy when they're not fighting...
...Peace is not an abstract. It means a better life for people. We have shaken off prejudice. Now we must destroy poverty, ignorance, hunger...
Finally, the commission makes a plea to all the developed countries of the world, warning that unless they "begin to act upon their rhetorical commitments to ending hunger, the principle that human life is sacred, which forms the very underpinnings of human society, will gradually but relentlessly erode...
Shaka'a embarked on a 14-day hunger strike, during which he was to lose 26 pounds. Other mayors in the Gaza Strip and West Bank staged an angry protest demonstration and then resigned en masse. In a letter to Premier Menachem Begin, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance bluntly urged reconsideration of the deportation order. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat publicly complained that "such measures do not contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of confidence" for the slow-burning negotiations on Palestinian autonomy...