Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays Rumanian citizens must contend with food shortages, long lines in shops and a sliding economy that the country's President, Nicolae Ceauşescu, seems ill equipped to reverse. Ceauşescu has vowed, among other gestures, to jail anyone feeding bread to animals...
Putting the matter bluntly, the Corporation is attempting to bread a commitment made four years ago to the Harvard community and the Black majority in South Africa. In response to sustained mass student protest, the University agreed in 1978 to automatically divest its debt securities in banks making direct loans to the South African government. At the time, anti-apartheid activists, including myself, viewed this reform as a disappointing minimalist concession...
...fact, Warsaw's claims of normality were buffeted on several fronts last week. In the western city of Poznan, site of the bloody "bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...
...challenged Jakob's beloved structure of classical physics, undermining the foundations of his intellectual world. Advancing age has confronted him with a more direct challenge, making him doubt his own usefulness and weakening his will to live. Seated in his study and spreading jam made from turnips on bread made from substances whose origins he dares not guess, Jakob watches night descend and reminisces about a life spent in the struggle to discern the laws underlying the physical world...
...zlotys (51? to $2.42 at the official exchange rate) per kg. A small canned ham had jumped from 200 to 600 zlotys ($2.55 to $7.75). A white-haired woman who had been hovering on the edge of the meat line turned away with only a loaf of brown bread in her wire basket. "I'm terrified," she confided. "I'm a widow on a pension. How am I going to live...