Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mary to a certain extent continues our emphasis on women's rights, the questions of hunger in the world, etc. She is the Avignon or anti-Pope of the Harvard-Radcliffe chaplaincy," Griffin said...
...extremely skinny--not svelte, but unnaturally thin. She starved herself torturously to achieve and maintain her underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows...
...most pervasive aspect of the disease is denial; anorexics' denial of their hunger, to themselves and to others, is extreme. They deny that they have any emotional or physical problems. While on ritualized and limited diets they are apt to suffer from digestive problems, but they deny they are ill and avoid seeing doctors who might force them to confront their self-starvation...
...according to the official explanation, plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power for himself; when his plot failed, he tried to flee to the Soviet Union but died when his plane crashed over Mongolia. Whether or not that account is true, Lin unquestionably died because his hunger for power threatened Mao. Once praised as the Chairman's "closest comrade in arms," he is today routinely reviled as one of the most malicious "traitors, renegades and scabs" in China's history...
...There is no way that the University can or will respond to demands during a sit-in or hunger strike," Morton H. Appley, president of Clark, said yesterday...