Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Bread...
Paul Kiepe's letter [Aug. 24] on bread is a mouthful, and not of America's present-day loaf, either. Why, it won't even get stale ! Whenever the bakers of this country - excusing the independent souls in our small towns who still know what bread is - stop turning out stuff that is absorbent cotton in the mouth and lead in the stomach, bread will become once more a part of America's diet, reducing or otherwise...
...fashioned U.S. caricature of a barefoot peon on burro-back as Ruiz Cortines does to Pancho Villa. They are a people who have moved out of the adobe huts into the main stream of urban life. They include professional men trained in modern universities. They eat bread instead of tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water and plumbing; they own cars. And they have taken to spending their vacations at resort hotels that...
Three days bread & water for your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large...
...with the late Merritt Lyndon Fernald, he finished his first book: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (not published until 1943). For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup. It was, he reports, a great success...