Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...festering dirt and dangerous tensions. Inflation went unchecked. Unemployment was,nearing the two-and-a-half-million mark. In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza was on his way to the Foreign Office when a crowd surrounded his car and mauled him. Cried Sforza: "I know you want bread! I work 16 hours a day so you'll get it." The bitter reply: "You work-but we can't." The Government, a paralytic coalition of Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists, was bogged down in tripartite squabbles; too many of the people merely said: "The Government bores...
Eternity & Bread. The obstacles had seemed towering. There was the Vatican, raised in immovable majesty above men and nations, a neighbor to eternity. There was the ancient land which had seen the works of Roman reason and Christian faith. There was the echo-petrified and arrested in time-of the world's greatest spirits, which made even simple 20th Century peasants somehow contemporary and kin to Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yet a band of conspirators, whose faith was a tenth as old as the simple stone cross in a village church, could capture these works and values-capture...
...West made it easy for Communism to forget all about principles and values, and talk to the people of bread...
...Communist organizers make their blunders, too. Recently the Brescia Communist daily La Verita devoted most of its space to a completely phony story about "Gary Cooper Addressing Communists of Philadelphia." Communist popular songs are often unintentionally funny. Sample: "Stalin is even better than bread for the people. Just to see his face is to want madly to kiss...
Mike Cahaly, of Cahaly's Delicatessen, who was one of the leaders in the local fight to keep down prices when O.P.A. ceilings went off last summer, pointed to his less than 10 percent markups on items like butter, bread, and cigarettes as the reason why he could not bring his prices down...