Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Bread. But even in the inebriation of success, Russia's little man could not forget the harshness of his daily life. When he thought of victory, he also thought of hlyeb-bread, sustenance. For in Russia today, the sharp pangs of hunger come as regularly as the dawn...
...average Russian lives on less than two pounds of food a day, half of it in black bread. The balance is compounded of five ounces of potatoes, four of cabbage, three of cereals, two of meat or fish...
When Lend-Lease lard reached Moscow, the housewives thought it too precious for cooking, used it as a bread spread...
...Russia there are no "unessential industries," no "labor difficulties," the 66-hour week is compulsory. Tardy employees are reprimanded, chronically late workers have their wages and rations cut, flagrant offenders are sent to the bread lines...
...disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied the dregs...