Word: hungering
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...rejected a rosy view of the future in favor of visions of chaos and destruction. But "Life During Wartime," the Talking Heads' 1979 hit, was the first indication that New Wave music dealing in the particulars of war not only could be popular, but seemed to satisfy some collective hunger of the public imagination...
...pseudo-saved were confident that they would be saved because they had accepted the Simple Plan, but they figured that certain handicaps--hunger, disease, ignorance, subjugation, desolation, segregation--understandably made it difficult for others to hear The Word. They prayed to God for the strength to carry out the Next Step (overcoming the handicaps), but there were difficulties in the Straits of Hormuz and the Federal Reserve was raising the prime lending rate and the automobile plants were closing...
...discomfiture was a surge of human rights activism directly inspired by the Madrid conference. Some 8,000 scientists from 44 non-Communist countries broke relations with Soviet scientific organizations to protest the persecution of Soviet colleagues. In seven Soviet cities, 139 Jewish dissidents began a three-day hunger strike, while 100 others crowded into Moscow's Supreme Soviet building demanding to emigrate to Israel. Exiles from the U.S.S.R. converged upon Madrid to hold press conferences detailing repression at home. Outside the Palace of Congresses, Maris Kirsons, a 39-year-old Latvian-born Lutheran minister from Philadelphia, punctured a vein...
...force the play-within-the-play to open on a battleship, where Miss Kent succumbs to sea-sickness. And of course Ruby has to fall in love along the way; one of those shore-leave sailors who always stroll along Broadway (Web Stone) appears just as she faints from hunger to catch her and croon in her ear, "It's not Greta Garbo, it's not Jean Harlow, it's you, it's you." She regains consciousness in time to join him in a charming duet. Zachos and Stone both sing exquisitely and act almost as well--stagily and mannered...
James Jackson said legislation stems in part from a hunger strike now in its 14th day, among ten prisoners in the solitary-confinement unit Cellblock 10 in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole...