Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play bingo. Di proved lucky, walking off with...
During 1981, Shcharansky was often kept on a 1,300-to 1,400-calorie meatless diet consisting of some fish, cabbage, potatoes, bread and cereal, plus minute amounts of flour, oil and tomato paste. On alternate days he received only bread, hot water and salt. Shcharansky, who weighed about 134 Ibs. at the time of his arrest in 1977, was down to about 110 Ibs. He was hospitalized for 33 days at the end of the summer. According to his mother, Shcharansky was subsequently sentenced to spend three more years in prison instead of spending this time in labor camp...
...Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after all, is Oktoberfest, Mardi Gras and May Day charged up into a massive electronic catharsis: the American version of bread and circuitry. Pontiac just might not be up to that...
...year flirtation with celebrity, Crisp finds himself once again back on the posing platform for an art class. One student remarks, "You were a nine days' wonder, weren't you?" Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -ByJ.D.Reed
...past few years. The country's mines, which once produced 35% of the world's gold, supplied only 1% in 1979. Increased oil prices in 1980 took 30% of export earnings. Inflation has reached an estimated 120%. At the official exchange rate, a loaf of bread costs the equivalent of $7.27. The anger of workers, particularly those in the cities who are unable to feed their families, helped create the atmosphere that led to Ghana's latest coup...