Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cabbage, potatoes, macaroni, kasha (cooked buckwheat), bread, fish, tea and a bit of meat normally make up the draftees' diet. On special holidays, fruit and jam are added. The troops down their fare quickly. Reason: The last to finish must clean the mess-hall table. Soviet draftees have little chance for female contact. While they can leave base one day each month, many do not do so, because the nearest village is often beyond walking distance. Longer furloughs are granted only as a special favor or for emergency reasons. On rare occasions, a divisional command may organize "social evenings...
Bucks, folding money, bread-whatever you call it, cash is making a comeback. Like a reformed smoker finishing his last pack; American consumers are putting away the plastic. Many stores now provide cash discounts, and the Government is worried about shortages of coins and currency...
Since the 12th century the Catholic Church has not served wine along with bread to communicants, but in recent years has allowed it on special occasions. U.S. bishops want to permit the practice on Sundays, but the Vatican says no. Many American parishes have begun to use wine more regularly, following Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, which use both bread and wine on all occasions. American Catholics have also taken to using "altar girls" as well as boys to help with the service, though that practice has always been officially against the rules too. Said a disgruntled Washington, D.C., priest...
...soften that bleak mes sage, Urban Cowboy tries to create a structure and an optimistic mood in a tale about people whose existences have nei ther structure nor much hope. What could have been a hard crust of contemporary life has become a soggy piece of chain-store white bread...
...Soviets.) It matters not. '"Radish communists,"' he reminds us, "red on the outside but white on the inside, taste as good to the Soviets as red tomatoes." This from the man who once described South America as a "Red sandwich"--Cuba and Chile (then under Allende) the slices of bread and one need not wonder who is waiting to gobble up the rest...