Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome's aged brown walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things...
...many the decision was quite simple. I spoke in these days to some workers and learned, to my great surprise, that they didn't know anything about the freedom of mind. Years of struggle for more bread have taught them to know only one freedom: the economic freedom. These people did not hesitate in the least how to decide. And they were very numerous and very resolute...
Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
...soldiers would not permit the Russians to carry in food for the guards inside the building. Instead, a U.S. lieutenant colonel inspected Russian soup, bread, coffee and cigarettes, then permitted German policemen to carry in the food...
...only want," said the king, "a little bit of butter for my bread...