Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empty, the Army little more than an armed rabble. Brigandage and tribal disaffection were rampant. The country's roads were hardly better than camel tracks, and so dreadful was transportation that fields of surplus wheat and barley might rot in one section while 600 miles away a bread famine would rage. The citizenry was saturated with corruption, ignorance and disease...
...encountered wrecked villages, Russian war debris, black mud where soldiers had to push their car. One day they flew down to the Ukraine to see Italian troops attacking Russia under the command of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt. For a while they shared the soldiers' soup and black bread, allowed themselves to be photographed by respectful infantrymen. Flying back from the Ukraine, Mussolini was allowed to take the controls for a few minutes from Adolf's personal pilot...
Said a Rockefeller researcher last week: "Giving vitamins to the children of Spain would help hardly at all. What they need I is not better quality, but more quantity -something to stick to their ribs, more bread, more meat, more vegetables. From our study so far, we have found little evidence of pellagra, little lack of vitamins A and C." Though the Spaniards may not have time to appreciate the difference, "technically they die of undernourishment, not malnutrition...
When Mayor Cotzias escaped on April 27, Greece had flour enough to last two more weeks. The vast majority of Greeks live on bread and olives. Greece does not raise sufficient wheat for her own needs, ordinarily imports it from the U.S.S.R. and Rumania. These sources are, of course, cut off; Greece's own wheat crop was only one-half normal this year, and of this the Germans promptly "borrowed" half. The olive crop was also way below normal. Greeks now live on wild herbs, raisins and a few perishable fruits unsuitable for borrowing. It is expected that...
...means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...