Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeptical ones. On the day before last week's distribution of land, I met him as he was drilling holes for rock blasting on a road being constructed by Ente Sila. When I asked about the following morning's distribution, Amerigo shrugged. "Tonight there will be bread at home," he said. "That's enough for me. Let tomorrow take care of itself...
...build a house there. It has rocks and I know how to blast stone. It will save us our rent, 2,000 lire a month." Concetta had tears in her eyes. "If only I can get out of this filth," she said, "I don't mind begging for bread. It's something, anyhow...
Died. Clement Wood, 62, Alabama-born jack-of-all-letters; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Schenectady, N.Y. Wood turned out novels, verse, anthologies, biographies, dozens of miscellaneous volumes. Most durable products: the lyrics of The Glory Road, Short'nin' Bread...
...four children in an endless tactical retreat from one shabby rented house to the next. She worked out complicated trade agreements with butchers and merchants, refused to deal with a grocer who would not hire one of her three sons, and charmed bakers into parting with stale bread. She summoned up an awesome queenliness when facing unpaid and threatening landlords. There were times when she went out, late at night, and rummaged through neighbors' ash barrels for fragments of usable coal...
...familiar "Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread . . ." Arberry writes...