Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From his thirty-first to his thirty-fifth year he had for food six ounces of barley bread and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. But finding that his eyes were growing dim and that his whole body was shriveled with an eruption and a sort of stony roughness he added oil to his former food...
There are the older men (mostly over 35) who are merely müde, müde, müde (tired, tired, tired) and only ask for Brot, Arbeit, Familie (bread, work, family). Close under the surface of their wooden faces is one emotion: deep, somber despair. All of them-old and young, disillusioned and arrogant-have one concern: "What is going to happen to us after the war?" The question uppermost in their minds: ''Will they turn us over to the Russians...
...Amiable, grey-haired Frances ("Fannie") Bryson of the New Orleans Item selected Our Daily Bread, a heavily stylized landscape of Deep South farmland at sundown, replete with wheeling buzzards and eroding soil. The artist: Mississippian John McCrady...
James Dunn makes a comeback playing Johnny, the singing waiter, who is supposed to win the family bread but somehow forgets on the way from bar to bar. He is Irish enough, but behind that genial smile a little more substantial warmth would not go amiss. He is certainly adequate, and so is Dorothy McGuire, though she is branded for life as "Claudia...
...prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...