Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These courses are what students call "the fringe;" most men, wary of bar examinations, choose the more orthodox fare, the "bread and butter" courses...
They live in mud huts, sleep on reed mats, dress in rags, eat the bread of the poor (there are two types of bread in Egypt, the good white bread from Egypt's abundant wheat being available only to the rich...
...first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit's bakeries were ordered temporarily shut...
...Molten Lead. That night the first man died in convulsions. Later, two men who had seemed to be recovering dashed through the narrow streets shouting that enemies were after them. A small boy tried to throttle his mother. Gendarmes went from house to house, collecting pieces of the deadly bread to be sent to Marseille for analysis. Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead. Pont-Saint-Esprit's hospital reported four attempts at suicide...
Last week, Clint was back before the cameras again, talking about his favorite subject, still a little surprised at the way people listened. "I've been astonished," says he, "at the interest people have in the weather. Not just from the farmer, with his bread & butter interest, but interest from everywhere. It's one human-interest story that never runs...