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Word: hungering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Thatcher stands firm, and the hunger strike is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: An End to a Dangerous Fast | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...warring, always uneasy Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland could have received. Last week, 53 days after they had begun to fast, seven Irish Republican terrorists imprisoned in the gray concrete H-block cells of Belfast's Maze Prison started to eat again. The end to the long hunger strike came as at least one of the prisoners lay near death, an event that authorities feared would inevitably have sparked a new wave of I.R.A. bombings and shootings throughout Northern Ireland and England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: An End to a Dangerous Fast | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...hunger strikers' capitulation was widely seen as a psychological victory for Thatcher, who from the very start refused to bow to the prisoners' demands, principally that they be treated as special-category political prisoners rather than as ordinary convicts. When the seven first refused food, on Oct. 27, they spoke of fasting "until death." Their privations and the frequent reports of their worsening health turned them into near martyrs and quickly raised sectarian tensions throughout the troubled North. Catholics demanded at least a compromise, while Protestants insisted that there be "no surrender." Thatcher held firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: An End to a Dangerous Fast | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...close observer has seen from the start that Jimmy Carter was from Plains but not of it. His qualities, especially his pride and hunger, propelled him away; and no doubt he .realized long ago that no overachiever is ever thanked at home. Not while he's achieving. Of the registered voters in his home district, 505 voted for Carter, 174 voted for Reagan, Clark or Anderson, and 282 didn't bother to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...lastly to the late short-story writer Jean Stafford. Wayward Reporter tells more about the writer's work than about his life. Yet Sokolov, a New York journalist and restaurant critic, conveys the essential craftsman and gourmand who sopped up the life around him with the same melancholy hunger he displayed at lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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