Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prewar universities. They became an "army of the armed bohemians, of heroes and murderers by conviction . . . too strong and influential to be extinguished by force." They had lost prestige, social position, ideals-"tossed this way and that way," wrote one of them, "just for the sake of our daily bread; gathering men about us and playing soldiers with them; brawling and drinking, roaring and smashing windows-destroying and shattering . . . ruthless and inexorably hard...
...DEATH STOPS THE FROLIC-George Bellairs-Macmillan ($2). As exuberant Alderman Harbuttle led a gay crocodile of English "follow-my-leader" through the aisles of a dusky church, he was suddenly and expertly sliced with an ordinary bread knife. Subsequent events and beautiful sleuthing put the story at the top of any list...
...with the Blue Division. The Reds, Franco saw, were onto the trick which had dissolved Spain's proud contribution to the anti-Bolshevik war-by reclothing some 1,500 men as members of a new Spanish Legion in the Wehrmacht. Other blasts from Moscow spoke of oil and bread and strategic materials which Russia thought Spain was still sending Hitler. Franco could shrug; the outbursts were plainly directed at Russia's Allies, held no special meaning for Spain so long as they produced no change in London and Washington...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...
Shelling, bombing, street fighting, a wrecked sewage system, a bread shortage and a typhus epidemic have recently all but shattered the city of Naples. But Naples' famed, ornate San Carlo Opera House, unscathed though the Royal Palace next door had suffered three bomb hits, had scarcely missed a performance since the war started. Last week Neapolitans and United Nations troops jammed the house, at a $2 top, to hear such fine voices as that of Pina Esca, who sings Tosca as few divas since the palmy days of Mary Garden and Geraldine Farrar...