Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials vehemently deny that their selective coverage is motivated by a hunger for higher ratings. "It's about time the conventions were covered like a news story, not a pageant," says Walter J. Pfister Jr., vice president for special television news programs. "We try to cover the convention the way you would edit a newspaper." For viewers who recall the long-winded platform debates and seconding speeches of previous conventions, that approach makes good sense...
...common question one hears during our Bicentennial celebration is: Will America be around to salute her Tercentennial? In offering answers and observations, Establishment journalists and editorialists point out that for America to survive for another one hundred years, hunger must be alleviated, the economy bettered, the environment cleaned, cooperation among nations increased, equal treatment for men, women, and children observed, and on and on with more drivel masquerading as true solutions...
...propagandized against his adopted country. "The part of American society I come from," he said, "was a monster, full of power seekers and status seekers, with lots of drugs and so on. In New York they have restaurants for dogs while people die in the streets of cold and hunger...
They call themselves messengers, and they like to denounce the wicked world with the rhetoric of doom. "We are suffering from the corrosive breath of materialism, secularism, commercialism and godlessness," cries the Rev. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, Texas, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and this leads to "hunger, inflation, credibility gaps, loose morals, bad government, divorce, drunkenness." But as some 16,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather this week in Norfolk for the 119th convention of the largest Protestant group in the U.S., their spirits are as ebullient as their slogan: LET THE CHURCH STAND UP. As keynote speaker...
Persons of royal blood know how to look into cameras and wave to the masses with pleasant smiles. They also wear expensive clothing and they look good. But as long as there is widespread hunger in the world, I cannot be interested in royalty...