Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Russia's city dwellers, always hungry for better times, drew premature cheer from news of the kolkhozes (collective farms). The bread grain crop of wheat and rye was more than half harvested and it had been a good year. Though the Government had said nothing, plain citizens nourished the hope that the long-deferred end of bread rationing might be in sight...
...people everywhere are asking for bread and are given stones. Let the leaders of state and church teach and act upon the two great commandments on which hang all the laws, and we shall have a moral force more than the equivalent of tens of thousands of atom bombs...
...Moslem custom forbids it) by Phillips' vice president in charge of public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant, cheese and bread prepared in Yemenite fashion by Mrs. Sam Mafey, the Yemen-born wife of a Phillips employee...
...described by a recent victim: five to 15 hours of interrogation daily; during questioning prisoner sits under blinding arc lamps, hands flat on table; food is two thin slices of bread, jug of hot water daily, elaborately served by white-capped chef with retinue...
...invites a potential buyer home for dinner in the hope that the good cooking and flattery of the "little woman" will turn the trick. Hughes was not on a "cost plus" basis as were so many other contractors Any money his publicity man splurged on entertainment was simply bread cast upon the waters, and could not be charged to the Government...