Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanau went to jail after her subscribers had lost 120,000,000 francs ($4,800,000) in the securities she recommended and sold (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...
...hodge podge. While Peiping boasted of its well-fed, growing population (see p. 24), 4,000,000 famine-shriveled Chinamen, not 400 miles to the west in Shansi and neighboring provinces, looked to almost certain death before spring. Six millions have already died. Shansi women, desperate, advertised themselves as "Hunger Brides," were offering eight and ten ? for husbands who could feed them something besides roots and grasses...
...militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number of times jailers forcibly rammed food down her throat. The count was 232. Once she gnawed a hole in her prison mattress, made a heap of the stuffings, twisted pages of her cell Bible into tapers, smashed her cell window and reached...
...Auburn, N. Y., Pasquale Camellera accidentally killed a woman when shooting at a man he disliked. Last week, waiting to be electrocuted at Sing Sing, Pasquale Camellera went on a hunger strike, spent his time sitting upright on a chair and waving his hands...
...five days. On the sixth he called me into his office. On the table was a platter of tasty chicken with rice, a creamy dessert and a dish of applesauce. All of these things were to be mine if I would make a complete confession. Because of my hunger I told him a lot of things that were not true...