Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty in adjusting her good intentions to her Iowa temperament caused sorrowing St. Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and dusty at the home of an astonished Hindu in Muttra only to disappear again...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...
...bushmaster hates captivity. Surrounded by tropical foliage and plenty of food, it goes on a sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...
...adult companions, the cook reports that a funny kind of a man has appeared at her kitchen asking for cake. The man, Martin (James Bell), is brought in. He captivates the company with his ingenuousness, his embarrassing candor about the most personal matters, his in cessant hunger. More than anyone else, Phyllis Granville (Katharine Warren) is captivated. She finds Martin curiously like her husband, from whom she has been growing apart, when he was younger. The association grows stronger. When Martin, appearing with milk on his mouth, solemnly reminds her that it is a sign someone will kiss him before...
...Chicago boys had never seen so much fish at once in their life, and since Chicagoans have a well-known hunger for fresh salt-water fish, a Yankee money-making idea was promptly hatched. With their last pennies they bought a refrigerator truck; which they loaded with the sea-food; and set out with all haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each...