Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week.* At week's end, Berlin had only enough bread left for 25 days, enough meat...
...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...
Grounds. In Miami, Stephen Contos sued his Greek-born wife for divorce because she refused to adopt the U.S. swim suit. In London, Stanley George Edwards won a divorce when he complained that his wife not only hit him with a poker, threw a bread knife at him and sprinkled tacks on the bedroom floor, but put brilliantine in his sugar...
What they will find on the ravaged Continent is beauty, and, startlingly, peace. Not peace in the pitched battle for Europe's faith and allegiance, nor peace in the daily battle for bread and hope, but the kind of peace that happens simply because life must continue. From the Clyde to the Tiber, the face of Europe is still scarred, yet these new scars-like the older ones at Athens, Rome and Nimes-are becoming part of Europe's peace. Europeans have learned long ago that the danger which always threatens even their stoutest cities and their most...
Taking the Bread Away. Trouble comes in threes, say the gypsies-from the devil, his wife and their son. It was that way after World War I; the gypsies were beset by the passport,, the factory and hygiene (they called doctors the "makers of dead men"). Hungary introduced compulsory bathing for gypsies; in Moravia, they were shorn bald; in Soviet Russia, they were put to work in factories and on collective farms-their songs, complained the Communists, were too melancholy. "Astrologists and psychologists are taking away the bread from the mouths of our wives and mothers," complained the chairman...