Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political crimes such as carrying arms be treated as political prisoners. That meant that they will be allowed better food, more family visits and ordinary clothes. The ruling came just in time to save some of the men from becoming martyrs; 30 of the Catholic prisoners were on a hunger strike, and one who had fasted for a month was near death...
...support his point that national security is threatened less from abroad than by "the deterioration of our society from within," McGovern quoted President Eisenhower, who warned in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...
...Civil War approaches, welcomed with fat confidence. Young Charles becomes a colonel. Inflation comes, hard times and hunger. The Yankees come, with pillage and emancipation. Defeat comes. At last the family scatters - to the grave, to New Or leans with a few pickings from their once sumptuous possessions, young Charles to New York and a distinguished career at the bar. Throughout - and here is the final secret of the book's fascination - they show them selves at once courageous and uncomprehending, walking upright and blind into doom...
Headaches, doctors realize, are symptoms rather than diseases. Toothaches, hangovers and simple hunger can cause headaches that can be cured by dental work, black coffee and food. Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery. Decongestants may help sinus headaches, while those caused by allergies can be prevented by identifying and avoiding the substance that brings on the allergic reaction, a task that most physicians concede is far easier in theory than in practice...
...Plan proposed that the U.S. offer economic aid to combat "not...any country or doctrine but...hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." However, most historians view it as a response to Russian overtures in Europe...