Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note, however, that this kind of wonder boy-acrobat character seems to have a fatal attraction for journalists. You would think that the American public demanded, not bread, but circuses from its intellectuals...
...such a condition, anybody can get into the ring and caress the bull's muzzle and grin at the spectators while the bull is charging. The poor animal is like a man whose teeth have been filed down to the gums and who has to chew hard bread...
Beneath the wan light of flare shells, the war in Indo-China moved into the seventh year. Said a red-haired Foreign Legionnaire: "We now have the oldest war in the world." To the "Moles of Nasan" the usually frugal French commissary sent Australian beefsteaks, fried potatoes, vegetables, fresh bread, Algerian wine and 3,000 bottles of champagne-one bottle for every four men in the dusty, embattled airstrip. Thai and Vietnamese troops got frozen meat, dried fish and rice; the North Africans had wine, live sheep and goats, brought in by airlift. In a dugout mess 25 feet underground...
...Sometimes," said Dr. Kaufman, "a woman who resents her husband serves him none of the foods he enjoys. If her resentment reaches intense hatred, meat is scorched, bread is stale, vegetables are cold and soggy. The husband begins his retaliation by criticizing her food, and ends by paying her alimony...
Through the years, Ase sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest is killed at Chateau-Thierry. Even the crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds...