Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer of Moscow communiques last week snatched bread & words from the mouths of a host of military experts. In a single, barking document this anonymous Muscovite stated the objective and strategy of the latest German offensive in Russia...
...Duce promised over & over a cleanup of black marketeers, an increase in "fundamental rations-bread, alimentary paste and fats," a closing down of "luxury hotels where certain evacuees often behave scandalously...
...drenched. Because of the shortage of food in the suburbs, whole families moved in and camped on sidewalks in front of grain shops. In Bijapur district, near Bombay, famine was so severe that livestock died. In Bombay five persons were reported injured in a quarrel over a piece of bread. In the Punjab farmers hoarded their grain, thereby made the bad situation worse. (The price of Punjab village brides had gone up, a sure sign of spreading inflation.) Some maharajas put their elephants out to pasture, or tried to sell them, because elephants in captivity usually get bread as well...
...daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water for wine. To fit the occasion he composed a new opening for the Prayer of Consecration: "O Thou, Who at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee didst turn the water into wine. . . ." (On his voyage to England months later the Bishop told...
...result: "We have made up our minds that though we love China we are not going to let love interfere with business, and so instead of a proposal of real alliance with China, we are going to send flowers in the form of relief . . . give [them] a piece of bread, when what they want is a good hard stone to heave at the enemy." And in peacetime "we give millions for Chinese relief with . . . joy, when we will not even allow a hundred-odd Chinese a year to enter our country on an immigration quota...