Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . The collapse of an inflated era of spending has suddenly sobered the American public. It isn't jokes and cocktails that they want now. It is bread and butter and facts. . . . These are the times when the conduct of a daily newspaper ceases to be a commercial enterprise. It becomes a stewardship that often involves great self-sacrifice and great courage...
...little reddish-brown pigeon who, barren herself, kissed the Doctor's hand when he gave her fertile eggs to sit on; the extraordinary story of Joe the gardener working himself into cancer growing flowers and turning stones to bread: such things Author Eckstein depicts with the intense exclusiveness of a Japanese print. The reader, with the Doctor, will wonder what lies beyond his pictures' boundaries -it must be a dazzling landscape in which such sparkling details live...
...centuries went by. A Kingdom passed away, a Republic came, a great man reeled over Europe, a kingdom came again, and the inevitable Republic followed, a small man flickered on the continent, and then the Third Republic. Versailles saw queer days. Women shouting for bread and a Queen offering cake. The splendor tarnished in the shadows, and silence fell, unending silence, to be broken at last by a German voice and the voice of Empire. And again deep silence...
...Fascist slogan, used last week: BREAD AND FREEDOM...
...ground-squirrel crouching on California's sun-bleached desert hills. When the squirrel begins to tremble, when the trembling reaches the marrow of his consciousness, the hawk swoops. After stripping off the flesh, he cracks the bones, sucks the trembling conscious marrow out. Fed with consciousness, his essential bread, the hawk returns to the stainless sky, hangs waiting for the ground-squirrel's son, their sons, their sons...