Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greeted by boos and catcalls. But with troops on hand, no violence flared. To keep tempers down, the government canceled all liquor licenses, closed the bars and shops, where Scotch normally sells at $3.50 a fifth. Supervisors kept the power plant going; a few white housewives learned to bake bread at home. Though the strike dragged on, the union had little chance to gain its real goal of political power this time, or in this way. Meanwhile the colony was losing some $110,000 a day in tourist dollars...
...faster, faster along the very edge of the abyss," truncheon-wielding cops beating them back; women and children being evacuated under heavy air bombardment, their life's possessions tied in burlap on their backs, or black coffins slung across their shoulders. There were sad, wizened faces in endless bread lines, hemorrhaging bodies on grimy stretchers, and images of Christ lying mute and broken in the rubble...
Aeroflot expects to convert completely to jets and turboprops by 1960, phase out the 800 to 1,000 two-engined Ilyushins (opposite number to the DC-3) that are its bread-and-lard planes. Thus, in less than three years, Aeroflot hopes to leap from the primitive, twin-engined piston stage into the four-jet age, without carefully rolling up experience on larger piston planes as Western lines have done...
...this world, a loud voice was a woman's greatest asset. She had to shout down her neighbors, truckdrivers, vendors, her children, and the incessant roar of an impatient city. Her life was plagued by overripe oranges, burned bread, and defective scales...
...tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting common sense-as in his answer to a request for money for a friend's tombstone: "I lent Maginn ?500 in his life time and he paid me ?20 back. I think I have done enough in giving him bread-let other philanthropists give him a stone...