Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that the greatest bread and butter issue before the people of this once-thriving industrial state is JOBS. Massachusetts, by imposing the highest state corporation tax in the country, is driving out old industries and driving off new, and by paring the unnecessary and the wasteful off the budget, I will be able to bring these taxes down without impairing the many useful social functions which the state government performs. Further I will do all that I can to help textile companies and textile unions agree on a basis for remaining in Massachusetts rather than hindering them. I will...
Bell on the Border. One morning last August, Mieczyslaw, just past his 13th birthday, left home again. He carried an old briefcase containing a pair of sneakers, a box of matches and four pounds of bread. He had 200 zlotys ($50) in his pocket. He took a train to a town near the Oder, crossed the river on a ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along...
Sometimes the texts invoked charms and magic, sometimes mumbo-jumbo ("Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti . . ."), sometimes sheer bravado ("Heaven thunders, the earth trembles before [the king] . . ."). But they also pleaded good works on behalf of the Pharaoh ("I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no boat...
...always gone his own way. His integrity is as iron-clad as that of the man in his poem: my specialty is living said a man (who could not earn his bread because he would not sell his head) An editor to whom he offered five poems sent him a check for three of them and, rejected the other two. Cummings disdainfully returned the check, and the editor capitulated and bought all five. In spite of his publishers' anxiety, Cummings insisted on publishing one book without a title and others with such bristlers as XLI Poems, CIOPW...
Inflation: "The cause of inflation can, I believe, be made plain. Let's stay in the kitchen a moment. It is as though we were making bread and while we answered the phone a malicious neighbor [i.e., Russia] dumped a whole cup of yeast into the bowl. That's the inflation story. In fact, that is inflation...