Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bread, Stones & Toynbee (Contd...
...crouch on the metal plate at the base of the machine. He had read in a book on Yoga that meat increases thirst, so all he took with him for what he estimated would be a six-day trip was four bottles of water and two loaves of dry bread...
...Komoroczky's machine shop nailed up the crate and bolted it firmly to the floor of a flatcar. Soon afterward, Imre was on his way. Cramped and crouching, he shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before moving on to East Germany. By the time...
...Milquetoast, rose up to deny the story. In a letter to the British publication, the Listener, John D. Jr. wrote: "The story .. . about my father's living simply on milk was entirely fictitious . . . Drinking milk was not any more of a habit with him than eating bread or meat . . . Milk was to him just another food ... As to [a] statement with reference to my father's being willing to exchange his wealth for a sound stomach, I can state unequivocally that with only such occasional indispositions as everyone has, my father enjoyed good health throughout life...
Christmas Every Day. Elsa entertained kings and queens, broke bread with half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just...