Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square old clothes and give variety only the Union renowned for its moose heads and Victorian decor can countenance that but the round type with low partitions. Despite all the modern conveniences that Gropius can offer graduate students still must watch out for vinegar in their bread pudding...
...China since February, as much as a third of press space and radio time has been given over to the theme: infected bread and fish, plague-carrying fleas and other insects are being dropped...
...Bread & Cheese. But the fly is only part of the trouble. The foundation found that twelve village families out of every 100 live only on unleavened bread, skim milk and cheese. Fifty-six percent manage to get fresh vegetables once a week. At one village, there is a single doctor who had to treat 27,000 new patients plus 1,100 pregnant women and 5,500 children -a clientele that gave him time only to ask for symptoms and guess at a remedy...
There was widespread criticism of allocating $100,000 to celebrate Independence Day last week: why circuses, when bread was needed? But at the end of a carnival day, a sorely burdened people had temporarily forgotten how far they must still go, in reminding themselves how far they had come...
...earn his literary bread & butter many a novelist from Defoe to Dostoevsky has turned to the news for a fiction plot. The best of them make enduring fiction out of passing fact by drawing deep on their imagination. In Flee the Angry Strangers, Novelist George Mandel has picked a headline subject-drug addiction among teen-agers-but has given it little more than a gaping doubletake...