Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sobering news to a victory-drunk nation was the announcement that after Aug. i the bread ration would be reduced...
...vast and variegated job of rearming the U. S. the part that U. S. industry must play is vast and variegated enough. It means building a strange, specialized, plane-ship-and-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast, sluggish bread-&-butter economy, and meshing them. Yet the first step needed for the industrial job was by last week clear: constructing new plant and equipment. But, after seven weeks of hard desk work and high talk in Washington, few new factories for war materials had taken shape...
...victory of France." Said a friend in Washington last week: "I'm afraid it will break old Bill's heart. The Germans will probably bow to him from the waist and have caviar shipped in especially, and he would love it if they put him on bread and water." At week's end Mr. Bullitt was reported to have left his hosts, traipsed off to Bordeaux...
Julia de Saegher, child of Courtrai in 1918, do you remember how blessed you made the Sundays of its prisoners within the white-washed walls of the gendarmerie, by your precious, timid visits and generous gifts of bread...
...stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious...