Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bread Upon the Waters...
...universal joy, they confidently began planning the trials of nearly 100 "traitors" ("The government is grateful," said the Minister of Guidance with a perfectly straight face, "that the people did not exert justice themselves but awaited due process of law"). They boosted their popularity by slashing the price of bread and gasoline...
...Western Front for the incessant noise of the Eastern Front in World War II, and Director Douglas Sirk has turned a true camera eye on the bleak grey vista of the once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie sputters like a jeep on kerosene...
...Beadle teamed up with Dr. Edward L. Tatum, a chemist now of the Rockefeller Institute, and selected a new laboratory victim, the so-called red bread mold (Neurospora crassa), which is really a beautiful coral pink in its natural state, unmolested by geneticists. Neurospora is a geneticist's dream. When properly introduced, it mates and reproduces sexually. It also grows nonsexually, so a truckload of mold with the same heredity can be grown, if desirable, from a single spore. But the best thing about Neurospora is that it asks for so little. It thrives on a medium containing nothing...
Citation: "Samaritan to the suffering, inveterate foe to all famine . . . he has mightily worked, carrying the benison of milk and bread to . . . the world's undernourished children...