Word: hungering
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...conditions created under Spanish colonial exploitation and perpetuated by a rawly opportunistic and corrupt ruling class itself under the thumbs of Norteamericano gangsters and businessmen did make life indefensibly miserable for the majority of Cubans. The present regime has made astounding and laudible progress in eliminating hunger, disease, illiteracy and social injustice...
...released on schedule later that month. He was mistaken. As soon as his term expired, Amalrik was rearrested and has now been sentenced to three more years for "fabrications defaming the Soviet state" -the same charge that produced his previous conviction. In protest, he has gone on a hunger strike. His friends fear for his life, since he is already in poor health from meningitis and years of eating deficient prison food...
...family fare is a narrow one, encompassing cuddly animals, bland costume pictures enlivened by painfully obvious song-and-dance numbers, and not much else The enthusiastic reception for the older, gutsier Disney features and animated shorts at the Lincoln Center retrospective ought to demonstrate that there is a hunger for something more...
...history, the saga of Robert Peary was fissured from the beginning. Peary was never reticent about his hunger for glory. Like Douglas MacArthur, he wrote ringing letters about ambition to his mother. Resting in his igloo after the last polar trip, he contemplated elaborate designs for his mausoleum. But according to Matt Henson's recollections, Peary was sullen and evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician...
Physicist Yuval Ne'eman, president of Tel Aviv University, says that he and other Israeli scientists were instrumental in persuading the six to end their hunger strike last week. He describes the phone calls as enabling the Russian scientists to maintain their sense of value. "We want them to feel that life is still worth living and that they are doing important work. They are men who are at the top of their profession. For them not to remain active is like dying...