Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teau de Rambouillet, dinner with Foreign Minister Bidault, a visit to Versailles. One hot afternoon (95°), Evita slipped into Notre-Dame, listened to a brief sermon, prayed, then drove back to the Ritz for a bath. Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables. It was a polite way of emphasizing French need for Argentine wheat...
...potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer wanted to drown...
...Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
Erich knew that some of the bigger boys at school had their own ways of getting bread. They sold it-ten marks for a slice. Usually Erich was unable to pay, but by arguing and promising he got bread on credit. Over a period of weeks, he put himself 160 marks in debt-more than the price of a pack of American cigarets. He thought that he would be able to pay up when he had sold enough of his treasures...
...last week Erich went again to a neighbor and offered her some things he had found. She got angry. She was a hungry woman herself, with mouths to feed. "Listen," she said, "I have no bread to give you. Your things are worthless. You should find better things to do than going around begging." She slammed the door. Erich went away, his treasures clutched in his hand...