Word: hungering
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...background crowd in a musical number, or among the faceless masses in a street scene. Extras, if they find work, will make seven dollars a day. (The highest paid Bollywood stars make a million dollars a picture.) They are willing to put up with incredible hardship?sleeping on pavements, hunger, illness?rather than return in defeat to their villages. Eventually, they pay hefty membership fees to join the Junior Artists Association. "Ambition can be like that," shrugs 42-year-old Suraj, an extra who fondly recalls his best role: as a dying soldier in a now-forgotten epic...
...know these details because Lewis and Clark kept perhaps the most complete journals in the history of human exploration. We can look over their shoulders as they and their party of 31 contend with hunger, disease, blizzards, broiling sun, boiling rapids, furious grizzly bears and unrelenting plagues of tormenting "musquetors." We know about the Indians who helped them, and we know that they had to eat dogs and horses to survive. We are in the canoe with Clark when he writes, "Ocian in view! O! the joy," straining to hear the waves breaking on the shore he had sought...
...from the Woomera detention center. A search was mounted across 200,000 square kilometers of desert by police and dogs with helicopter and plane support. Authorities said that the harsh conditions would make it hard for anyone to get far without a vehicle. The breakout occurred as the largest hunger strike at the camp since January entered its fifth day and after four detainees had stitched their lips together in protest at Australia's refusal to grant asylum. CANADA Promises, Promises The leaders of the world's seven richest countries signed an agreement with four African heads of state promising...
...Trap, as he is known, should shut it. His team didn't have the host nation's burning hunger to win. And, in his post-game harangue, the coach conveniently forgot to criticize his captain, Francesco Totti, for getting sent off for faking a foul in the Korean penalty area, and to fault his striker, Christian Vieri, for missing a couple of sitters in front of the goal...
...Omen Delegates at the UN World Food Summit, dedicated to fighting global hunger, ate an opening-day lunch of foie gras, lobster and goose stuffed with olives...