Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some small part of the credit for Turkish success in Korea may be due to U.S. bakers, who have learned to make a heavy bread that suits their gallant allies-using wheat and rice flour and olive oil. A U.S. colonel who visited Korea brought back to Washington last week the text of a classic message sent by the Turks to a U.S. supply depot: "Enemy attacked, we attacked. Send us more bread...
...them, those last days of 1856, on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny. Even sturdy Captain Rodney Savage, 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, was slow to understand the signs and undercurrents: holy gurus croaking to the crows, the native nightrunners who were carrying from village to village the bread and goat-flesh symbols of Shiva, god of destruction...
...editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...headquarters, Silverthorne rented a shabby, $100-a-month building, then sublet half of it. "Hell," snorted Joe, "I don't need a chrome-plated office. I was fetched up on salt-rising bread and black-eyed peas." He parked his planes in the open, repaired them in Honduran air force shops. Since TACA and SAHSA already had radio range and weather stations, Joe saw no reason to duplicate them. "I just turn on the radio and listen to their weather reports," he says blandly...
Wagner considered himself "no artisan to earn my daily bread; it must be offered to me . . .so that I may remain an artist. Who is to do this? Only those who love me." Those who loved him-the most famed was Franz Liszt-had often to be reminded of their obligation. Sample: "I have locked myself up in a country house to put the last touches on the Holländer; the town won't see me again until he flies. Meanwhile, there is urgent business for you. Look at this pawn ticket...