Word: bread
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...example, the public still sees female sexuality as taboo—porn and erotica almost exclusively target men, while most people treat female masturbation as either astonishing or shameful. Similarly, boys still grow up learning that to be a real man they have to be out winning the bread, not at home baking it with their kids. Culture tells people these differences are “natural,” and many internalize them so thoroughly that they unthinkingly adhere to them...
...city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...captives were fed twice a day: chopped raw vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers and onions, wrapped in flat, unleavened bread. Sometimes, a spoonful of hummus was added to the vegetables. A 2-liter plastic jug was in his cell on the first day; when it ran out, Waddah would knock on his door and ask the guard for a refill. Once a day, the captives were taken to the toilet in groups of five. Their hands bound behind them, they would queue up at a tap just outside the toilet. One by one, the captives were untied, and they filled...
...remote farmhouses in the countryside. But after a few days in the basement prison, Waddah came to believe he was in an urban environment. Although there were no windows, he could hear city traffic and, when the power went out, the sound of several generators starting up. The bread served was often warm and fresh, indicating there was a baker nearby. If his captors had neighbors, they were probably complicit in the kidnappings; they obviously didn't report the sound of gunshots within the house to the police. During one interrogation, Waddah was told not to contemplate an escape. "They...
...first I thought the talk of a ban must be coming from local children's entertainers or tennis players. But let me say to whoever started circulating these rumors, Vegemite is not a political football. It's is a bread-and-butter issue. And there are many reasons America should not swallow such a ban, and indeed should encourage the spread of the Vegemony...