Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...
...Cast thy bread upon the waters: /or thou shalt find it after many days...
...beat, Switzerland's world champion Hans Gerschweiler, fashioned a thin lead in the compulsory school figures. But them came Button's bread and butter specialty--free skating. For five straight minutes, Dick exploded with his assortment of jumps and turns, and that was that. After beating Gerschweiler, it was easy for the Englewood, New Jersey, athlete to pocket the Olympic title at St. Moritz and then the world's championship at Davoz...