Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee in the U.S. can identify the man. He is the confused and floundering mythical one who, at the moment...
Italy's Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida was embroiled as usual in a passel of law suits.* Focal point of the contests was International News Service and its Rome Bureau Chief Mike Chinigo. After Chinigo distributed I.N.S. photos of Gina cavorting in cancan dresses for a new movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat...
Growing Mountain. In the past, the U.S. has been able to sell some of its weak-gluten surpluses abroad, where much bread was made by hand. Now European bakers, rapidly mechanizing their industry, are turning to Canada and the Argentine for the strong-gluten wheat they need...
...While bread can be made at home with weak-gluten wheat flour, the big mechanized bakers need the strength, elasticity and gas-retaining qualities of strong-gluten wheat flour for their bread, though they can use weak-gluten wheat for cakes and pastries...
...never land of mysterious regulation, life is systemized--from the distance you can carry a magazine to the number of playable pool balls. Everything, in fact, except the under-the-counter dealings. Despite signs to the contrary, certain kitchen boys hired from the streets to paw out the French bread have never seen Ivory, or what it floats...