Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Tito was tightening the Yugoslav belt. The third of the population which carries ration cards had its bread cut by 10%. The quotas of grain which each peasant community is required to sell to the government were sliced by an overall 43%. Reported U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen to Washington: "There will be serious starvation...
...were not entirely blameless. On his way to work every morning, he noticed with dismay the amount of garbage piled up on city doorsteps. "Argentines," he said, "throw one and a half million head of cattle into the garbage can every year . . . It is easy to see that the bread and meat thrown away daily in Buenos Aires would easily feed any European city for a week...
Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...
...also feels it is the best way to make sure "the Journal will live ... If I leave it to a lot of trustees or fat boys in the front office . . . they won't care about it. It doesn't mean their life blood . . . their very bread and water. If I can inspire the employees, then I've got what no one else in the world has got and it will live...
...G.R.E. tests are similar to those offered by the College Board Examiners to prospective college men The examination includes a test of general scholastic ability, tests of general achievement in six bread fields of undergraduate study, and advanced level tests of achievement in various subjects...