Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complains the coach. "Says it don't do him any good, doesn't help him any. Well, it sure helped me. Hell, if it was my own brother, I'd knock him down as soon as I would anyone else. It's my meat and bread he's trying to take away...
...down, but good credit risks had little trouble. Most dealers blamed last year's mammoth production and this year's poor weather for the sales slump. Said San Francisco's Ellis Brooks, a big Chevrolet dealer: "Everybody cries a little bit, even with a loaf of bread under...
...Salvation Army bread line he joined a knot of scugnizzi for a handout, then drifted off with them. Suddenly a big teen-ager turned on him and snapped: "Who are you?" "What do you want?" countered Father Borelli. The leader ordered: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" "Why?" asked the priest. The scugnizzo lunged forward with a razor, and Father Borelli removed his hands. Thus he learned a scugnizzo rule: concealed hands mean concealed weapons...
...arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last; three scugnizzi emerged from the shadows and entered with him. The surprised custodian, alert to the secret, fed Father Borelli bread and jam with the others, even though this breaking of the fast after midnight kept him from saying Mass the next morning. "This seems like a movie to me," he whispered as he passed the food around...
...women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly modern production plant with a horse-and-buggy distribution system. The supermarket will revolutionize our buying habits-and the revolution is just beginning...