Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions had accepted the President's program, at least momentarily, and some took to it as if they expected to submit to lie-detector tests twice a week. In Dallas, greying Mrs. Anna Myers patriotically quit feeding bread crumbs to an assortment of bluebirds who haunt her backyard. But the bluebirds turned up their beaks at birdseed and only pecked at the crumbled corn muffins she offered them later in the week. Most housewives were taking things easier, and the majority were complying in part-like Mrs. Eleanor Sorenson of Indianapolis, who decided to observe meatless Tuesday...
...girl friend named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
There'll be no fried chicken tonight for the 450 'Cliffe-dwellers who eat in the college's dormitory dining rooms, and there'll be less bread--and no meatballs--on Tuesdays. Radcliffe undergraduates, getting a full week's planned by Harvard, are by official action giving complete support to President Truman's plan...
Menus, slashed by the omission of meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on Thursdays, will offer fish and cheese dishes as substitutes. Fewer rolls and slices of bread will be served both in the dormitories and in Agassiz House cafeteria, which feeds a daily quota of 500 students at noon...
...latter part of possible Council action that University residents will most feel the pinch. Specifically, conservation steps would encompass eliminating dessert at noon meals and more importantly in the light of Government stress upon wheat conservation, passing by wheat cereals on the breakfast menu and dispensing with bread for dinner...