Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other lands, where bread-eating peasants took a dimmer view of spuds, the rich and powerful attempted to overcome their prejudices. Frederick the Great sat on a balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls...
Higher Needs. "The animal, "Dr. Hediger says, "does not live by bread alone." Some species need entertainment, excitement or companions. But in filling these higher needs, the special psychology and social customs of each species must be considered...
...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...
Denver's angry man was hard to dispute. Last week such staples as bread, milk and coffee inched upward. In three days, producers jacked up the prices of 44 popular items sold by Massachusetts grocers...