Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lake at Stanmore to save an Alsatian wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar Square...
...having taught himself Morse code, he qualified as an operator in the Minas Gerais state telegraph system. He left home for Belo Horizonte, the state capital, with one spare shirt and a roast chicken. During the months he had to wait for an opening, he lived largely on bread...
Food Preservation. Radiation may prove itself a cheap and convenient method to kill bugs in stored grain. Army Quartermaster tests show that radiation will also cut spoilage in onions and potatoes, preserve bread, chicken, pork and some vegetables without refrigeration, extend the refrigerated shelf life of beef and lamb as much as ten times. In five to 20 years food radiation will be a sizable industry...
...radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said the baker: "Now I'll put some real dough in my bread...
...holds his readers, it is because he gives his characters, even in the midst of death a rage to live. Sky and sea, bread and honey, woman and song, all are celebrated on "the fields of praise." Lying with his paramour Captain Polyxygis thinks: "There's nothing in this world above to equal woman." A young Greek asks Captain Michales' centenarian father: "How has life seemed to you during those hundred years. Grandfather?" "Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand...