Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Familiar Problems. Few if any other U.S. diplomats had ever faced an ordeal like Angus Ward's. He had spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications...
...rather live on bread alone, there are other ways to get your vitamins. For pure satisfaction, nothing beats sitting in the house library until the evening visit of the milk-and-doughnuts man. Lurch nosily to your feet at his whistle, and lope the length of the library with hunger in every movement. It drives the poor grinds nuts...
...whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching on a breakfast of bread and a tangerine...
Those who threaten to resign from Students for Eisenhower if this proposal is passed show themselves to be only "bread and butter" Eisenhower supporters. May I urge all of our members to consider the arguments rationally and prove that SFE is truly a clear-headed and independent organization. Morton Korn '57, Chairman, Students for Eisenhower...
Macmillan also announced a $196 million cut in government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...