Word: breads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much interest in radical Mexico's expropriation stunts or in her barter deals with fascist countries, Colonel Batista lost no time in seeing U. S. press correspondents, reassuring them that Cuba is "not going Communist, nor Fascist, nor Nazi. We are progressives." The Colonel recently had his bread buttered with a $50,000,000 U. S. bank loan to Cuba and he showed he had not forgotten it. Because the Colonel believes that "social aspirations are similar" in the three countries, he proposed a "United States-Cuba-Mexico axis," declared that "there is no room in the Western Hemisphere...
Lawrence quarreled as often with "the Danes" as with anyone else. But for them his brilliant talk and warm-hearted moments more than offset his erratic temperament. Besides, the morning after a tantrum he always appeared bearing a peace-offering of bread and cakes of his own baking...
...Funk is not expected long to resist the demands of those Nazi radicals who have wanted to print bank notes against such newly created wealth as public buildings, roads. They have professed to be less interested in how much gold a ten-mark note represents than how much bread it will buy. As if in expectation of inflation, values on the German stockmarket rose in terms of marks, while German bonds elsewhere sank lower...
...written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
Like many humorists. Editor Burnett has a few subjects he wants to write about in dead earnest. The result-as when, for example, he praises Ignazio Silone, author of Bread and Wine (TIME, April 5, 1937), or denounces fascism-is that his language, instead of acquiring gravity, stiffens with awkwardness, like a comedian at a funeral...