Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualified personnel ... in spite of American millionaires." Result: the Reds increased the number of Communist shop stewards at Piaggio from four to seven (out of eight). Faced with this challenge, the U.S. canceled the warship contract: a clear demonstration to Italian workers that, by voting Communist, they had taken bread out of their own and their families' mouths...
...Humanité promptly filled its columns with sports news, nonpolitical features, and sensational six-column spreads on murders. Last week the paper even used what it would have regarded in the past as a "bourgeois" circulation slogan, suggested by a suburban Paris party cell. The slogan: "Every morning, your bread, a good cup of coffee and L'Humanit...
...technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid industrialization...
Dhebar is a Gandhi disciple, from Gandhi's own countryside, who subsists piously on maize bread and buttermilk. A thin man of 49, with a small mustache and glinting spectacles, he is chief minister of Saurashtra state (21,000 square miles, 4,000,000 population), which was put together in 1948 from lands formerly ruled by princes and maharajas. After a day's stint in his bare lawyer's office, Dhebar goes home to his bare, two-room dwelling, only one room of which has a carpet. Dhebar squats on the carpet and listens to the peasants...
...references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...