Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous turndowns, that Syria cooperate to allow repair of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline cut by saboteurs during the Egyptian hostilities. Declared Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.: "Unless work begins immediately . . . the oil situation will be aggravated, which means in human terms cold and hunger not only in Europe but in Asia and South America...
Philip Teitelbaum, assistant professor of Psychology, is currently attempting to determine the mechanism in the brain that causes the sensations of hunger and thirst. Since psychologists know what area of the brain controls these sensations, he has surgically removed various sections of this area in the brains of experimental rats...
Teitelbaum is trying to discover what part of the hunger process has been altered in each case and how the various sections of the brain coordinate to produce the sensation of hunger. He hopes to be able to use the knowledge gained from this study to explain other human sensations and appetites...
Mother & Son. Stress is ever present everywhere, according to Selye. He sees it in "the soldier who sustains wounds in battle, the mother who worries about her soldier son, the gambler who watches the races . . . the beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach...
...days a battle of position was fought. Travelers racing out of Hungary (passport control had lapsed, and some border crossings were wide open for the first time in nine years) reported "the people taking more control." Radio Budapest talked of "a state of siege" and appealed for "protection from hunger." While shooting was going on in one street, people queued for bread in another. Leaflets appeared. They reiterated the 16 demands, signed by "the new Provisional Revolutionary Hungarian Government and National Committee of Defense." Rebel troops now wore red, white and green armbands. Teen-age girl revolutionaries joined in skirmishes...