Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serbian komitaji (guerrilla), having been captured by the Turks, was sentenced to death. Before the firing squad the Turkish commander cynically asked him: "Have you ever been in a worse predicament?" He replied: "Twice-on two occasions friends came to my house and I had no bread to offer them." > A Serbian general ordered a colonel to lead his troops across some impossibly wild hills near the Drina River. The colonel protested that his men would starve. The General said "Eat wolves." The colonel and his men went, ate wolves, fought the enemy...
...John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...
...husky bread-baker's helper was also a skilled cake and pie wrapper. His father 22 and his numerous brothers and sisters were always losing their jobs, or never getting jobs. He had just lost his last one, had a brother at work who was unaccountably registered in another district. Both brothers were drafted the same day, leaving the family without steady support. The Rev. Mr. Gruman felt like the devil, could do nothing about...
Under it 1,000,000 destitute adults and 2,000,000 children would be nourished by soup kitchens. Germany would supply 1,000,000 bushels of bread grains each month, and Mr. Hoover's National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies would supply 20,000 tons of fats, soup stocks and special children's foods. The latter would be carried through the British blockade only in ships not otherwise available to Britain...
...Belgians promptly said yes. The Germans were approached; they said yes-and shipped 800,000 bushels of bread grains into Belgium, prepared to ship 3,200,000 bushels more. The British were approached. Last week they said, once...