Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technicality. In Lewiston, Idaho, a waitress flatly refused to sell cheese to be taken out of the restaurant, gave in when the customer ordered "two cheese sandwiches-untoasted and without bread...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "Only the food was missing. Dinner, when the dining-room doors were finally thrown open at 10 p.m., consisted of small pieces of bread on which were dabs of Spam, corned beef and Vienna sausage. ... No one mentioned food. It almost doesn't exist for civilians at the moment. . . . They say the Germans were very correct: no drunkenness, few troops; no noise...
Tsitsin's dream is to cross wheat or some other glutinous grain with rye and produce a supergrain which would revolutionize the world's bread and cereal economy. Says he: "The battle between wheat and rye in my laboratories is one of the most momentous in the world...
After two days our water supply ran out. Then we ran out of salt and bread and all the canned food, later lost the cattle which the Partisan quartermasters drove with them. After that we were down to one meal a day of rice boiled without salt in snow water...
...Bread;" "No Meat;" "No Gasoline" said the signs in the French shopwindows. As the Nazis dashed toward Paris, French soldiers lay by the roadside, nursing bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice...