Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Warsaw do not look. Hurrying by in their fleece-lined topcoats and heavy boots, the women often wearing slacks and boots, they are too busy struggling to live. There are long queues for buses and trolley cars. There are endless day-long queues at the meat and bread stores for the basic food available: round loaves of dark bread and long Polish sausages. The cafés of Warsaw are crowded...
...Fryer charged that his editors had withheld one of his dispatches even from Worker staffers. He added: "It described certain excesses committed by Soviet troops. I saw the result of one of them. I saw an old man of 70 lying on the pavement dead, with a loaf of bread in his hand. He had been shot by a Soviet tank as he was coming away from a bread shop. I argued that there was no 'White terror' in Hungary. The rising against the Communist government of Hungary was supported by 99% of the people, including a great...
...hanging on a wooden cross. There were nails in his hands and feet, and lines of pain in his face. All at once Marcelino was afraid no longer. "You look hungry." he said. "Wait, I'll be back." Marcelino ran down to the kitchen, stole a slice of bread, ran back to the upper room and held up the bread for The Big Man to take...
...took it. A light awoke in his right hand, and it grew and shone, and the hand seemed to come alive and to move, and it reached out and took the bread from the child...
...next day he was back. "I've got bread and wine today!" he announced triumphantly. And strangely then, there was a sound like the sound of a great stone being rolled away, and the sound was the voice of The Big Man. "You are not afraid of me?" he asked. Marcelino smiled. "You know who I am?" And Marcelino said simply, "Yes. You are the Lord." "You are a good boy," The Big Man said, "and I thank you. From this day you shall be called Marcelino of the Bread and Wine...