Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some days. And why not? What UNCTAD lacked in substance it more than made up for in fun and games. The partying was so intense that UNCTAD's founding father, the noted Argentine economist Raul Prebisch, noticeably avoided the meeting, and one Belgian delegate went on a hunger strike in protest. The Chilean government had laid on a cultural program of symphony and folk music, ballet and theater-but had to cancel it after one week because of low attendance...
...U.C.L.A., Noah came under the care of a team of psychologists led by a Norwegian specialist in "operant conditioning"-a therapy similar to animal training. Noah was forced to respond to simple commands. His successes were rewarded with Fritos; his failures were met sternly. Enforced hunger and low-voltage prods were part of the program...
...they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...
...Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger...
...soon killed in a duel, but he had somehow refined Lola's primitive hunger for sex and power. In Munich, a year after Dujarier's death, she opened the climactic episode of her career by striding unannounced into the study of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, an aging aesthete who had transformed his dowdy Munich into the Florence of the north. When the King asked the lady if her figure was a work of nature or of art, the story goes, Lola snatched up a pair of scissors and ripped open her bodice. "I am bewitched," the King...