Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hungry, frustrated Italians the week brought good news. First, bread rations were upped 100 grams. The nation's political rations were handsomely increased. An Allied decision put Italy once more on the verge of full sovereignty...
...efficiency. All the national income was pooled, and each citizen received an equal share. All industry was run by the national government; state governments had disappeared. Each industry was organized along military lines. Each citizen, from 21 to 45, worked at a trade of his own choosing. (The alternative: bread & water.) At 45, all were retired, and the years thereafter were the best and happiest part of a man's life. The retired workers in each branch of industry elected the managers of it, those still employed having no vote. The ten heads of the different branches of industry...
...lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
...clear away the debris of departed diners. Four standees waited to be fed. Then the Germans filed in, stood stiffly while their guards bustled about ordering diners to seats at other tables so the prisoners could sit together. , The P.W.s ate a hearty dinner of stewed chicken, white bread, jam, ice cream. The standees swallowed their anger. On the battlefronts U.S. soldiers ate "C" rations from cans, and were glad to have them...
...remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam. Raged his wife, sickly Kaiserin Augusta-Victoria: "Liebknecht and his harlot, Rosa Luxemburg, camped three nights in the Imperial bedroom - oh, the blasphemy...