Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend the revolution." His Agrarian Reform Institute boss, Antonio Núñez Jiménez, a longtime Communist-liner, said opponents should "buy a plane...
Since January the Buenos Aires' cost-of-living index has soared from 1,610 to 2,665 (from a base of 100 in January 1943). Señ Ferrer finds bread up from 4? to 8? a kilo, eggs from 14? to 47? a dozen, vegetables and fruits trebled in price. Husband Vittorino, 38, no longer goes noontimes to a restaurant; instead, he takes a sandwich and a bottle of bouillon to work. He has even given up his cheap, locally made cigarettes. His paycheck is fixed at 5,200 pesos a month (around $60 on last week...
...coolies would really quiver. Duke knows, if he could burn down a few Wolves in the next rumble. But he needs a piece (gun), and the local dealer in hot goods is asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent...
Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone, which Khrushchev criticized in 1957 after it became a bestseller both in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., was not really such a bad book-said Khrushchev expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted...
...Hitler revived Germany. He provided bread and work for 7,000,000 unemployed, and built the Autobahnen...