Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they not been doing this by curtailing production? Their answers were continuously interrupted by shouts of "You're lying!" The first interrogation lasted six hours; the second, which began three hours later, lasted 15. Not until it ended were they given their first prison food-water, bread, one scrambled egg. Said Ruedemann: "It's remarkable how malleable a man can become...
...Prize possessions of the bakery, however, are two huge built-in rotary evens that work like a Ferris wheel, carrying the pans of dough on slowly moving shelves, which insure an even heat at all times. From Monday to Friday of last week, these evens baked 2723 leaves of bread, 1480 pies, and 3071 dozen rolls...
...railroad station have been built. These are modern but of small capacity. Paris, on the other hand, seems untouched by the war. The food situation looks good. Ration stamps are unnecessary for a brief visit and gasoline is the only big black market commodity today. French cigarettes, bread, beer, and coffee, reported to be the most unsatisfactory items for tourists in Paris, are being widely enjoyed by Americans here today...
...woman of whom they did not quite dare speak was, in fact, the most powerful woman alive, and millions of people as simple as the Rabinsohns depended on her for life, bread and spiritual guidance. She had moved a long way from the grimy Bucharest street where her father had first taught her the stern Old Testament notions of good & evil; she had abandoned the jealous God of her fathers for another faith. She was Ana Rabinsohn Pauker, a Communist, and a key figure in the struggle for the world...
...OFFERTORY: "In theory, the whole congregation surging up into the sanctuary and presenting you, the priest, with the bread and wine, their contribution to the mysteries. Actually, in their name, a small boy emerges from the background, probably with hiccoughs; at first sight you are tempted to regard him as an unwelcome distraction, then you remember that he stands there in the name of the congregation...