Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the hopes which keep people living are also those which make them miserable. Ambition is fugitive, love is usually for the wrong things-usually only self-love-and the complacence which can come from believing you understand your vanity, is most harmful. Johnson writes of the treachery and hunger of the human heart and imagination: the need for hope, and the folly of self-deceptions which languish life away in the gloom of anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject...
...Besides the lectures, Earth Day planners scheduled stunts to dramatize various aspects of the environmental crisis. As a warning of impending famine caused by the world's rising population, San Fernando State College students were organized to prepare tea and rice to give people a taste of a "hunger diet." Students at several other colleges and schools were ready to collect bottles and aluminum cans cluttering the landscape-and then to conduct "dump-ins" on the steps of city halls or manufacturers' plants...
...expanding the money supply in recent weeks, may now rein in a bit. Though there is no talk of returning the economy to the constricting days of absolutely no monetary growth, even a slight shift to slower expansion of the money supply will do little to help corporations' hunger for more capital or shareholders' hopes for higher stock prices...
...however, the killing of Vietnamese peasants will someday appear unecological. So will the starvation of most of the world's population, condemned to hunger as their nations' resources are fed to a burgeoning American economy. Americans combrising only six per cent of the world's population, gobble up thirty per cent of the world's available resources every year. More important than improving our ways of gobbling these resources up is to allow other peoples to share in their...
June 15: [After Grigorenko began a hunger strike] they started to force-feed me. They put me in a straitjacket, beat me and choked me. Then they began the painful procedure by putting a clamp in my mouth to keep it open...