Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minh City, the authorities have eliminated most of the druggy, decadent excesses, yet the city is still frenetically commercial. At the Cafe Givral, the Rick's Bar of wartime Saigon, a superb French-bread sandwich and cool citron presse are still available. Money changers, prostitutes and all kinds of small-time wheeler-dealers flourish, albeit rather more discreetly than ten years ago. North and South, Coca-Cola is for sale, but the black market stalls of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy...
Western diplomats in Khartoum discounted government claims that the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood was involved in the riots; Nimeiri, wary of its growing power, had recently cracked down on that group. Instead, said one Western official, "people appeared to be venting their frustrations at recent price rises in gasoline and bread." The increases followed Nimeiri's decision to end subsidies on some basic commodities, part of an economic austerity plan demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Nimeiri is expected to cite last week's unrest in asking Reagan to ease U.S. demands for economic reforms and to release $181 million...
...different characters that Anne has "a first-rate mind," she often must thrash through her solipsism and self-absorption toward revelations that most adults and bright children already know. She sees a pair of boots in a Manhattan store and realizes, since she is now winning some bread on her own, that she can buy them. She does so and then gives herself a lengthy talking-to that concludes: "She hated to say it, she hadn't believed it, ever in her life, but at this moment she knew it to be true: money made a difference...
Nina, 87, a woman with two rows of silver teeth, dressed in a blue coat and woolen scarf, in Moscow for the day to shop: "I don't know anything about Gorbachev; I only know that we had bread under Chernenko, and we will continue to have it under Gorbachev. There is meat in the shops too. I have a pension, and Gorbachev won't take it away from...
...five Roman Catholic churches around the U.S., the priests and the congregations recite this prayer at Mass before the consecrated bread and wine are distributed: "We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that...