Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would rather welcome them. One would point out handsome new buildings to them, and explain the workings of the cyclotron and the calculator to their families. One would tell them why some of the Yard's old trees have been felled, and why the ginger bread is missing from the Memorial Hall tower. One would be mindful the whole while that changes are relative; when weighed against all that Harvard means to its students and alumni, they hardly jiggle the scale...
Vargas' popular strength appeared to be growing steadily. Ordinary Brazilians, burdened by inflation, had developed a strong nostalgia for the good old days under Getulio. Little posters were appearing on the walls everywhere: "Bread 10? 1940-Bread 32? 1950." Even the army showed some signs of returning to Vargas' side. In the election of officers last month at Rio's Club Militar (a social center to which most army officers belong), the regular anti-Vargas slate was defeated. The winning faction made a point of saying that they would not object to the ex-President...
...thousand Communist kids invaded Western Berlin. But it was not the kind of invasion that the Communists had originally planned. The kids from Eastern Germany swarmed into the free part of Berlin to stare longingly at the well-filled shopwindows, at the candy counters and the shelves of white bread. Few of the youngsters had money to buy these rare treasures, but West Berliners took them into shops and bought them food, and even clothing and shoes...
...Very Nice." West Berlin welcomed the visitors. RIAS, the U.S. radio station in Berlin, put on a special variety show for 2,000 of the kids which included U.S. jazz and a quiz program. The winners carried off armloads of shoes, shirts, dresses, loaves of bread. Some of the youngsters were suspicious of the friendliness they encountered. The owner of a big Berlin movie theater invited the kids to come and see the show (The Dark Mirror, with Olivia de Havilland). Afterward, one 16-year-old thanked the manager: "It was very nice indeed. Yet when I come to think...
...back across the border at night, but the People's Police were ready for them. The cops promptly pounced on the kids, took away their FDJ membership cards and confiscated all the gifts they had brought with them from the West-the shoes, the candy, and the white bread...