Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread. Shipmates had noted that Panyushkin, who suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...
...Some Excitement." Along the Via Dolorosa all was dead. An Arab youngster bounced a ball against the plaque denoting the Third Station. At the Sixth Station, where Veronica wiped Christ's face a Hebronite Arab brushed past silently, carrying an enormous tray of bread loaves. Christendom's greatest sanctuary, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was indeed as though it were a place of the dead...
...bread...
...pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
...ordinary Russian, however, the new price system has a bright counterpart. Wages were to remain the same in new rubles as in the old. But bread would be cheaper by 12%, cereals by ten, and most other foods remain unchanged from their previous lowest levels. Because citizens whose prices would be cut greatly outnumbered those with unbanked hoards, there was more jubilation than grief in Russia at the Zhdanov decree...