Word: hungering
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...raked the bunker-like building with gunfire. No one was injured, no shots were fired back, and the truck quickly sped off. Meanwhile, in cities across the U.S., opponents of American aid to El Salvador's military-civilian junta laid plans for teach-ins, marches, vigils and hunger strikes. It all had a familiar ring...
...closest neighbor is a frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial for second-degree murder, charged with shooting her 68-year-old husband at the breakfast table. Though Harris was put on a 24-hour suicide watch-and some observers claimed she was starting a hunger strike when she refused "tasteless" prison food-she has been visited by friends and lawyers bearing richer fare. Says Warden Norwood Jackson: "She is eating cookies and candy. This doesn't indicate to me that she is on a hunger strike." By midweek, Harris had volunteered to work...
...assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...
...against Henry James who, she believes, singlehandedly created a new and inferior brand of fiction, "the pure novel." "When you think of James in the light of his predecessors," she writes, "you are suddenly conscious of what is not there: battles, riots, tempests, sunrises, the sewers of Paris, crime hunger, the plague, the scaffold, the clergy..." And most of all, she is convinced, ideas are gone. This is unconvincing in light of James' The Bostonians, a book packed with ideas...
...single article or photograph has touched me so deeply as the picture of the tiny, shriveled, fragile hand illustrating the food crisis in Africa. The fight against world hunger has only begun...