Word: breads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After her story was published, people across the country sent her loaves of bread, tinned vegetables, $2,200 in cash and more than 300 letters of sympathy. This made Mattie Schultz feel better. Said she, with tears in her eyes: "God bless all these people...
Among the other rituals: a "purification" by holy water and a "communion" of bread and wine. Finally the couple fastened blue ribbons around each other's heads-his with a gold medallion representing the sun, hers with a silver crescent symbolizing the moon-and jumped over a broomstick. With that, John Beasley, 26, and his wife Donna, 22, two chiropractors from Marietta, Ga., were declared man and wife...
...school, still living at home and wondering what he ought to do with his life. He is, or should be, about as typical in looks and problems as a teen-ager can be. Except for this one quirk: though his background is middle-class and Middle Western-strictly white bread-he has taken to speaking with a heavy Italian accent. From his room comes the sound of Italian opera and language lessons, he has renamed the family cat Fellini, and induced his mother to cook what his father disgustedly calls "ini" food-zucchini, linguini, that sort of thing...
Refreshments are by Lyons, rather down-market caterers who produce more than 100,000 morsels ranging from simple buttered bread to frosted chocolate cakes that accompany tea (pour your own milk) or iced coffee (no ice). Experienced guests use the duplex technique of placing larger items over smaller, thus concealing the true dimensions of the load. During the afternoon, dozens of tea plates and spoons will be slipped into handbags as souvenirs. All done with gentility. Nell Jolliffe, who was awarded the Royal Victorian medal last month for her 58 years of dishing tea at garden parties, shared an insider...
...Here come two on the far ridge," he says. Sure enough, two figures can be seen burrowing under a fence, then twisting through the barbed wire. By the time they clear the barrier, Thomas and his men are waiting for them-with bread, beer cans of hot tea and, after questioning, swift and sure repatriation to China...