Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this spring of 1948 is undeniably a city-but the life...
...read a lot of reports of the bizone and you will surely say, it must the awfully to live there, but life in the east-zone is twice so badly. For the money you get on the black-market in Leipzig one bread, you get in the bizone four and you see yourself, where life grown bitter, though in the bizone are much more displace persons than in the Russain zone, because an enormous part of our harvest is brought to Russia. On the end I must yet once say, that all I wrote, is the only truth...
...TIME'S authority for citing Sir Thomas More as a meat-eater was Erasmus, as quoted by Theodore Maynard in his book, Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More (Macmillan; 1947): "He likes to eat corned beef and corned bread much leavened, rather than what people count delicacies...
...streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price to pay for their 18 million anti-Communist votes. The price was land and bread for Italy's workers and peasants...
...Italians felt: "We are now waiting to see what the government does with its chance. We know that we have to get up early in the morning to work. What we want is to be sure that there will be work to fill the day, furrows to plow, and bread to earn." The Communists' greatest fear was that the Christian Democrats would give that peasant what he wanted...