Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the many problems, existence was not all grim. The luckless lined up for bread and coffee at Newman's garage in Dixon, and yet the truth of many a young man's mood was as remembered by Lawrence Grove, who hustled popcorn at the park where Reagan was a lifeguard. Recalls Grove: "We really had little sense of the Depression. We always had a good time." Such a time, in Dixon, usually meant a day at the park, socializing at Fluf's Confectionary, an 8? ice cream cone at the Prince Ice Cream Castle, roller skating...
...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
...into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later, there were popular uprisings against pro-Moscow regimes in both Poland and Hungary. The Kremlin let the Polish army put down the rioting Poznan workers, who were demanding "bread and freedom." But the Soviets sent their own troops into Budapest in a brutal suppression that left at least 25,000 Hungarians dead and forced thousands more into exile...
...colored or powered lights on a performer from different directions, he is doing with vision essentially the same as Breuer is with hearing: manipulating the path a performance travels on its way from the actor to the audience's senses. Breuer's experiments of today may become tomorrow's bread-and-butter theater...
...Cambridge apartment, saying that he learned to cook on the farm, where he stoked the fire for 150 people. He talks wistfully about the "great deal of unnecessary cruelty," the "widespread violence," about people whose hands were tied behind their backs and, like dogs, were forced to eat steamed bread from the floor-or eat nothing at all. "The Red Guards did many stupid things," he recalls. "Somebody hit me and did something very silly..." Again, the sentence is left unfinished...