Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looks at his wholesale cost, increases it by a fixed percentage taken from an official OPS markup list. The list covers 60% of the products in the nation's $32 billion annual food bill, including butter, baby foods, breakfast cereal, cocoa, coffee etc. Exempt: milk, cream, fresh meat, bread, liquor and 58 other commodities, all of which are still regulated by the Jan. 26 order, as well as fresh fruit & vegetables and sugar, which are not controlled...
Cagily, Estes Kefauver called O'Dwyer's bluff, made him hand over the "evidence" and then read it into the record. It was just a perfunctory bread & butter note from Tobey to a legitimate campaign contributor. The Senator's inexhaustible supply of indignation and tears boiled over. "I have lived long years and God has been good to me," cried Tobey from behind the green eyeshade he had clamped on his long, gleaming forehead. "I am a poor man and always will be. But there is one thing I am. I am a free man . . ." Tobey wept...
...them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos is a 25-year-old farmer from the island of Chios, a veteran...
Deliberation, n. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered...
...this it has been partially successful; at many meals the experimental ice creams have been by far the most popular topic of meal-time conversation. When, after the "brown-bread flavor's" first appearance, Director of Dining Halls Heaman heard one of these discussions, he vowed he would never serve that flavor again. Nevertheless, every time he strolls past Howard Johnson's he can be proud of himself. He boasts 32 flavors, and they have only...