Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work between meals, except for a two-hour siesta after lunch. Meals for the whole day were cooked early in the morning, to keep government planes from spotting smoke. Man, those Huks had a pretty high-class outfit up there. Enough arms and medicines, acres of farms, plenty of bread, even carabaos. They had weddings and dances and pin-up girls. The leaders wore good clothes and their fingernails were manicured...
...bread and all the circuses could not hide the well-oiled machinery behind the scenes. The C.G.T. is no independent labor-organization; its manifestoes are Perón orders. The calling of the rally meant that Perón and Evita had made up their minds to go full speed ahead with their plans, breaking all precedents...
...thing that always seems to go with sound teeth is vigorous chewing and tough food, Dr. Neumann finds. Wherever cutlery and good table manners appear, teeth decay. His prescription for postponing tooth decay: chew hard on tough, sour bread of the kind made by European peasants. Better still, let children chew raw sugar cane...
Since neither black bread nor sugar cane can be found in U.S. metropolitan areas, Dr. Neumann concludes: "The chewing of pencils, leather or pieces of wood by children should be regarded as a wholesome instinct and not as a neurotic trait...
Some Crust. In Mexico City, police shut three bakeries and jailed the bakers for using motor oil in baking bread...