Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone...
...multiplied a millionfold. He is just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what was left over of the Sunday joint. His boyhood was tough. At school he was caned. He grew to know history in a simple way; he grew to love his King as he loved the mist in the park on a summer...
...spite of this, retail prices rose about 1% in 1940's first half. Main retail advances: bread (1? a loaf in northern cities) and woolen and silk apparel. Offsetting this over-all rise, home furnishing prices fell 2½% (paced by a 10% to 15% decline in refrigerators...
...share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along. There are no books. For recreation, the prisoners are allowed to play cards, and there is an empty room where an acrobatic dancer practices while others watch. Some...
...bread that was whiter, Or rolls that were lighter, Than those that they serve you at Ronda