Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bubbling Joy. The book's message is told in narrative form, purportedly by an unnamed peasant who wanders through Russia and Siberia with a knapsack of dried bread for food and the charity of man for shelter. His first concern is to find out how one may fulfill the famed Biblical admonition to "pray without ceasing." He consults a number of authorities, only to come away emptyhearted until at last he meets a holy man who teaches him that to pray without ceasing is to pray the Prayer of Jesus. "The continuous interior Prayer of Jesus," the holy...
...Buenos Aires, 300 gate-crashers tried to jam into a with-credentials-only press conference held one morning in a hotel. The star attraction: Italy's full-blown Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida (TIME, Aug. 16), in the Argentine as an official guest of one of her fans, President Juan PerÓn. Hearing the restive tumult from those barred at the door, Gina melted the newsmen by asking: "Why do they love me so much?" After visiting the presidential mansion, Gina purred: "I realize now why people love PerÓn so much...
...good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in," says Hemingway. "That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better." He opens two bottles of beer and continues: "I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks...
...Bread & Water. Addington tracked down parents of the boys, found one father who said that guards had tied his son to a carpenter's sawhorse while they whipped him with straps. Another parent said that her boy had been whipped with a fan belt split at the end. Addington paid a surprise visit to the reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped...
...United States was at war the year David accepted Conant's to become the school's third dean. He returned to the school he had left in 1927. With him he brought 15 years of bread business experience. He know intimately government officials and top management...