Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toward the evening of Sunday, I had given them satisfaction. They gave me a glass of water, a bit of bread which I could not eat, and altered their bearing ... I was given a cigarette, and time to relax and control my trembling-hands, feet, teeth, so that I could write down what I had told them...
More significant than the foreign-exchange ruble ruffle was the simultaneous (but unrelated) cut in Russian domestic prices. More than 200 consumer items were marked down, ranging from 10% on milk to 30% on bread and beef. The cuts undoubtedly reflected a genuine increase in Russian production, and were good news for Russians, who promptly went on a buying spree. But even after the cut (the fourth in 27 months), Russian prices remain high in terms of Russian wages. Ignoring the phony exchange rate, U.S. economists estimate that an American works 30 minutes for a pound of butter, a Russian...
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, who conceived the idea of the institute, spoke of the importance of Jewish ceremonies in the life of Jesus: "The wine [Jesus] gave [his disciples] was from the Kiddush cup -the chalice. The bread he gave them to eat were these matzos, flour and water. Also on the Seder table is a shankbone, roasted .... In Jesus' time they ate the lamb together. That feast of the Passover was the Last Supper . . . 'Shema Israel adonoi elohenu adonoi echod-Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' Those were words that Jesus...
...almost meaningless as a descriptive term since popular education opened the dikes to a shallow sea." Having blared this raspberry into the face of the "antipoetic world of commerce and bureaucracy," tetchy Poet Graves admits that he has been forced to spend much of the last quarter-century earning bread for his seven children by churning out historical novels for the antipoetic market. What bothers him now is how much longer he can keep the churn turning. "I shall gradually reduce my Graves's orders," he imagines a bookseller saying. "I wouldn...
...raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...