Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where the advance party (two men and two women) of the United Nations Palestine Commission was staying. Glancing quickly about him, he rang the doorbell, handed in his parcel, and dashed off. In the package were a chicken, a leg of lamb, carrots, lettuce, eggplant and two loaves of bread...
Fifty townspeople had run away. Last week 30 of them came back to find all the money and food gone (except for a few hidden loaves of bread); the bank, the police station and the post office burned to the ground...
...firm trouser crease or an even hemline. There is only a hushed attentiveness, as their eyes move studyingly from the speaker to the faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum floor beneath their feet is spick & span because this group has nothing with which to litter...
...crippled children on crutches hobbled in a pathetically grotesque dance, hoping for a few lire from wealthy passersby. It is such contrasts, an expression of the fact that Italy's upper classes still live in luxury while two million unemployed must worry about their daily bread, that help Communism most in Italy...
...Very Worried." But the real battle was still the battle for the roads. For the Jews in Jerusalem, it was a matter of survival. Each day food grew scarcer, bread lines longer. Those most immediately threatened by the Arab stranglehold were 1,500 Orthodox Jews living in the Old City, surrounded by blockading Arabs. What food they got was coming through in British convoys...