Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things are going these days, it's the optimist who thinks bread will cost $2 a loaf within five years. The pessimist says it will cost 2 rubles...
...will discover that bread is the staff of life, and that the Dutch spread everything from chocolate candies to fresh stawberries on their bread. He will learn to put mustard or mayonnaise, and not catsup, on the French fries he buys from sidewalk stands...
...Marquand and a handful of others, novelists are prone to regard bankers as villains or vegetables. Even when the banker is a Communist, the curse is not lifted. Present case in point: the vice president of a bank in an industrial city in South Russia, Taras Tarasovich Popugaev, "a bread-salter" (i.e., great party-giver), known to friends in true tycoon style as T.T. Thus Vladimir B. Grinioff, 45, a Russian-born U.S. expert on Russian affairs, presents one of the most grotesque and ingratiating figures of this year's fiction...
With rain expected to fall throughout the day, the straight bread-and-butter plays which grind out yardage in small chunks will probably decide the outcome of the game. Penn's flashy sophomore halfbacks, Fred Doelling, John Hanlon, and John Terpak will probably give way to the fullback thrusts of John Wright and Dave Sikarski. Wright opened the season at halfback but was switched to the fullback spot when Terpak, Hanlon, and Doelling showed well in early games...
...fitted to judge whether a cartel is harmful to the economy or not. That is my job." Only Adenauer's intercession forced Erhard to accept a compromise bill permitting exceptions for "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings. "Damned little butter for such a big slice of dry bread," snorted Erhard as the Bundestag passed the bill. Yet even this watered-down law makes Germany the first European country to take a stand in principle against "associations in restraint of competition...