Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years His Eminence, the Grand Senussi, Seyyid Mohamed Idris, had eaten the bitter bread of exile in a cozy villa on the Nile. But never did the spiritual and temporal leader of three million warlike, puritanical Senussi tribesmen give up hope of returning to his native desert. Never did he falter in hatred of the Italians who had cruelly dispersed his people and turned their holy city of Girabub into a fort. Over cups of China tea flavored with mint (Senussi Moslems may not touch alcohol or coffee), His Eminence entertained intriguing envoys from remote Saharan oases, helped recruit Senussi...
...accept him as a soldier." I looked at the handsome 16-year-old boy behind her. "Are you ready to fight under Tito?" "Yes," he said. "Then come with me, and I will speak to one of the Marshal's commanders." The woman tucked a piece of bread into the hands of her last son, made the sign of the cross above his head, and vanished. Up and down we marched, first through the woods and then through a lunar panorama, of fierce broken crags. We overtook a Partisan soldier, shot through the chest, gasping and struggling toward...
Mann sends his manuscripts piecemeal to his translator, who works on them almost as hard (eight hours a day) as their author does. Mrs. Lowe bakes her own bread (see cut), keeps house for her husband, Dr Elias Avery Lowe, an Oxford paleographer, who joined the staff of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in 1936. Her hyphenated surname is the result of her mistaken notion that married Britons always join surnames...
They told me that sometimes she drank a glass of milk or a glass of water or ate a dark bread sandwich...
Mind you, I am proud and grateful to be a bridge expert. Spinoza used to grind lenses to earn a living, and I prefer to grind bids and plays. Bridge, as you know, is not only my hobby but my bread and butter, as well...