Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incredible misinformation about it. In a chapter called "I Have Seen the Future and It Works,"* Strachey wrote: ". . . You can argue forever as to the merits of this new [Communist] economic system, but you cannot argue away the fact that ... 170 million people are . . living, working, producing their daily bread, marrying, bearing children . without the 'help' of any capitalists, landlords or employers . . . But, somebody may say, isn't Russia a pretty tough sort of place? What about the purges and the shootings and the lack of civil liberties . .? Yes, Russia is pretty tough Things have happened there...
...year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with white and yellow flowers; trees that had seemed dead last summer were budding again...
Both parts of Point Four should be passed, without further cuts or more restrictions. Many nations--too weak, perhaps, to have a say in the cold war--are waiting for America to toss bread upon the waters...
...partial cure for the wheat surplus, Kansas Merchant and Wheat Farmer Morris Coover last week offered a new recipe for bread, using 16% more wheat flour in every loaf and retailing for 10 more. Coover, backed by the Western Kansas Development Association, last week flew 500 loaves of his heavier, darker and more nutritious bread to Washington for sampling in the Senate & House restaurants...
...Tarzan books have sold nearly 30 million copies in 58 languages and dialects. Other sources of income: royalties on 26 movies that netted him over $5,000,000; comic strips once published in 400 newspapers; a score of trademark classifications on apeman articles from G-strings to bread-wrappers...