Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus reduce the chances of an outbreak of disease, the government at first refused to bring food into the city. As a result, emergency food supplies flown in by various relief organizations piled up in hangars at Managua's Las Mercedes Airport while profiteers within the city sold bread at $2 a loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua is too polluted to drink). Children sat in the streets, putting their hands in mud puddles and then licking the moisture. Rioting broke out among a mob of hungry survivors when...
Within hours after the quake struck, however, bread and milk powder from CARE were arriving at Las Mercedes. President Nixon ordered "an all-out effort" and U.S. Air Force C-141 and C-5 transports shuttled in with medical supplies, bulldozers and other items at a tonnage rate that exceeded the first days of the Berlin airlift of 1948. At least 20 countries joined the relief effort, including Cuba, which dispatched a medical team...
...current activity on the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodity exchange, is a reliable indicator of future food prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price...
HEALTH-FOOD fans live on more than wheat germ alone. Breakfast can include organic apple juice, Granola with skim milk and buttered protein-enriched toast. Lunch may well be almond butter on whole-wheat bread or peanut butter, bananas and berries on date-nut bread. Spinach noodles with scrambled eggs provide bulk and only 250 calories. It even leaves room for a dessert of dietetic ice cream, a bargain at 125 calories...
...have scientific support on specific points, her grand philosophy strikes many as both too broad and too simple: "Poor nutrition has almost wrecked America. I think the crime scene, the mental-health scene, the drug scene are related to nutritional defects." One of her prime targets is packaged bread, generally considered nourishing because of enrichment, but obviously not sufficient by itself. Says she: "Years and years ago, prisoners were put on bread and water. If they were put on today's bread and water, they would die. Then all those people who don't believe in capital punishment...