Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister "Clem" Attlee (whom Laski considers too conservative), has prestige with Labor's rank & file (who are proud of their "posh" professor), has even greater influence on Britain's leftist intellectuals. But many Labor Party members dislike Laski for his "intellectual snobbishness," his impatience with trade-union "bread & butter questions" of today, his preoccupation with the Marxist power problems of tomorrow...
...read: "History will show the evils from which I saved France.... Each day, with a dagger at my throat, I had to battle the demands of the enemy. ... I surrendered nothing essential. . . . My actions sustained France. I assured France of la vie et le pain (life and bread). ... I prepared the road to liberation...
Died. Charles Gilman Norris, 64, sociological novelist whose unfailingly topical themes included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...
...Russian zone the press announced big news: with Russian blessing, the capital's four political parties had forged the Anti-Fascist Democratic Union. The new German popular front had agreed on a five-point program: 1) cleansing Germany of Hitlerite remnants; 2) speedy reconstruction to provide work, bread, shelter and clothes; 3) a democratic state; 4) freedom of thought and worship; 5) recognition of Germany's reparation debts...
...overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened up and let the man out for Christmas...