Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day nausea began. On the third day excruciating hunger pangs racked him. He gave up spinning and his doctor forbade him to talk. He slept comfortably, awoke early, gnawed by restlessness. On the fourth day jaundice developed. The 63-year-old man. down to 93 lb., was too weak to move. Water had become so revolting to him that he found it hard to drink enough for his needs. On the fifth day he got his second wind at starving: his system had temporarily given up hope for food. Vichy water had stopped the nausea. By day Gandhi basked...
...peel. Even transport and G. P. U. officers warned me against traveling over the countryside at night because of the numbers of starving, desperate men. . . . A foreign expert who returned from Kazakstan told me that 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 of inhabitants there have died of hunger...
...daggers, bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...
...Detroit's 1,400 city laborers, 1,000 were unable to raise any money on their pay checks. Several fainted at work from hunger before food cards were issued...
...week with a blatant, blaring parade of Berlin's largest party, the Communists. Miles of marching Reds snarled the capital's traffic for hours. Their brass bands shrilled and thumped the "Internationale" (written by a Frenchman). Shaking their fists at stolid police the Reds shouted "Down with Hunger and Chancellor von Schleicher!" The parade was Berlin's most harmless Red spree in years. No one was hurt...