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...CRIMSON. Only one, a protest about the inadequate supply of tickets to a swimming meet, was published. "The Yale swim tickets were distributed with exceptional inefficiency ...," the letter said. "As a personal protest, I intend to boycott the meet. In fact, I'm considering going on a three weeks' hunger strike...
...bear facts, as Ankrah herd them, suggested that the garrison had been reluctant at first about eating up the zoo. But hesitation quickly gave way to hunger, and it soon became a matter of gibbon take. For the first time they could remember, the ill-paid troops at Flagstaff House were all in plover...
...change, there were no major food riots in India last week. Instead, something potentially more worrisome than hunger exploded into violence: communal riots, the ugly outbreak of fighting between groups of different religions or languages that has all too often bloodied the nation. By week's end, 14 persons had been killed, 500 injured and nearly 1,500 jailed as Sikhs and Hindus, who hitherto had lived together in relative peace, fought in the streets of Delhi and in scores of towns in the state of Punjab. Cried a Hindu nationalist leader: "All Punjab is on fire...
Impulsively, Jean invites the ensign home to admire the Provencal decor and share her chicken salad, and in no time at all she is half mad with guilt over "some sort of animal hunger" that has driven them together. Looks more like vegetable hunger, really, but whatever has got into them doesn't agree with Sean. He turns nasty. They quarrel. A gun goes...
Bunch of the Boys. The Rubinstein who returned to Paris in 1920 had money, a growing reputation, and a still unsatiated hunger for the gay life of a gadabout bachelor ("I was 90% interested in women," he chuckles). He shared an apartment with a count, tooled around the boulevards in "a little carriage," and "was thin as a stick because I never went to bed until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel...