Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prostrating himself across the doorway of his abbey's refectory or sanctuary. As a substitute for the spoken word, a rudimentary sign language is the custom. For example, two fists struck against each other vertically means "work"; the index fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk supposed to explain a breakdown of his tractor to a mechanic in sign language...
...jammed were almost empty. Looters smashed the windows of a Saks Fifth Avenue branch near the General Motors office building, made off with furs and dresses. With many grocery stores wrecked and plundered throughout the city, food became scarce. Some profiteering merchants were charging as much as $ 1 for bread...
Running ahead of everybody else, according to local polls, is State Treasurer William Winter, 44, who by Ole Miss standards is practically a radical. Winter started off his campaign with the hope that it would be devoted to "bread-and-butter issues, not the old emotional ones-not racial issues...
Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake's Cabinet decided on drastic measures to recoup some of the loss. These include ending state subsidies on such staples as bread and butter, longtime features of New Zealand's elaborate welfare system. Taxes on gasoline, tobacco and liquor have gone up. The nation's imports and bank loans have been curtailed, and down payments for installment buying increased...
...Zagreb, headquarters for his crusade, he was greeted by church officials with gifts of bread and salt-a Yugoslav symbol of welcome-and quickly became known as "Gospodin Billy (Mister Billy)." In pouring rain, at a soccer field owned by a local Roman Catholic seminary (the government barred Graham from conducting his crusade in a public stadium), he spoke through a translator to a huddled crowd that represented more than one-tenth of Yugoslavia's 20,000 Protestants. A sodden banner proclaimed in Serbo-Croatian, "Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the life." Graham skirted politics...