Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...third year in a row, Red China's agricultural output had fallen disastrously behind target. And with 15 million more mouths to feed, Red China would be hard put to hold off hunger this winter...
...free libraries and reading-rooms are ideal for forgetting hunger pangs, and are well patronized by Britons eager to strike up an interesting silence . . . Sympathizers with your plight will readily escort you on tours of gasworks, municipal offices and other near showplaces such as the British Transport Commission or any of the more liberal-minded Catchment [Drainage] Boards." A cheap half-day tour: "two building sites, waits in selected Mayfair bus-queues, a good look at Aldgate Pump...
...aware of deeper spiritual maladjustments, and some of us have concluded that the trouble with material goals is that you can reach them. But as the world's arrivistes, the western nations should not forget what misery means. Anomie, after all, is a good deal easier to endure than hunger and cold...
...cell No. 20 in Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison last week, a grey-haired prisoner lay on his bunk and refused all food, though he occasionally took a swig of water to ease his hunger pains. At 64, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico's No. 1 Communist and No. 1 living artist, was on a hunger strike. His stomach troubled him, but Siqueiros was adamant: "I will continue until we get justice...
...last week, the Mexican government yielded a little to the hunger strikers, conditionally freed 19 small-fry railroad workers illegally held for 20 months, but released none of the important Reds. Grateful for the out, Siqueiros and his other hungry comrades gave up the strike and the painter started sipping consommé and apple sauce every three hours...