Word: breads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing Famine. Some of the Cuban soldiers in Angola have been replaced by civilian technicians, but they have not succeeded in bringing the country out of economic paralysis. In Luanda, meat, eggs, milk and bread are often unobtainable. A U.N. official visiting the city has warned that Angola faces not only widespread famine but the danger of tuberculosis and epidemics of dysentery. Largely because of the mass exodus of Portuguese whites, the country has only one doctor for every 12,000 people. The few foreign visitors allowed into the country are appalled by the chaos. Transportation and other public service...
SCHUMACHER QUOTES from the Sermon on the Mount, the Book of Proverbs, and Pope Pius XI during his discourse. He attacks the inadequacy of GNP materialism with "a revolutionary saying that 'man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God.'" To his credit as a propagandist, Schumacher never forces his religious beliefs on the reader. But neither does one leave this book feeling that religious references are made for poetic effect...
...turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into chez Mitchell. Says he: "I may be leaving in time, just before I inadvertently put a bottle of wine on the Mitchell table and have Dennis' father come home for lunch on a bicycle with a stick of bread under...
...particular feeling is that there is no particular virtue in not eating cake unless it helps my brother to have bread ... the ascetic ideal as such makes no appeal to me. The question, as I see it, is the extent to which our denial may help others ... My wife has a leaky heart. If she can be kept from overwork the doctor has said that she may hope for a reasonable long and useful life ... I think it is a dubious service to society not to bring up [my five children] as well...
...Bread Lines...