Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London several thousand "hunger marchers" gave His Majesty's Government their excuse for keeping mum, an example followed by Conservative papers. The Laborite Daily Herald flayed "Herriot's red herring," denounced his Six Conditions as intended to wreck the Disarmament Conference while seeming to assist it. Liberal editors were delighted by M. Herriot's insistence on compulsory arbitration, but on the whole Great Britain's reaction was cold...
...party demands immediate unemployment insurance for workers, consisting of $50 a week to each unemployed man and $25 for each dependent, and we are planning a hunger march on Washington in December to present our demands...
...that it "brought forth three resolutions to skip like mice across the pages of the newspaper Pravda" (Truth). The three resolutions "contain nothing new. . . . The fundamental stumbling block to Soviet progress today is the food shortage of which the resolutions say nothing. The shortage is causing neither famine nor hunger but it is a universal shortage...
Example of Author Anderson's present style: "Red Oliver had to think. He thought he had to think. He wanted to think-thought he wanted to think. In youth there is a kind of hunger...
Death still hovered over the fragile body (which had lost a pound a day for six days) when Mr. Gandhi ended his hunger strike by saying a prayer, quavering a hymn of joy, sipping an ounce or two of orange juice and exclaiming weakly "Satyagraha [Soul Force] has triumphed...