Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are still only two meals daily. They are generous meals, however, and a typical menu includes steak, beans, bread and butter with jam, canned peaches and coffee. The men supplement regular meals with coconuts and occasional local tangerines. There are no natives around to climb trees and get them coconuts, but high winds have solved this problem by breaking off tops of trees and bringing down a bonanza of nuts...
...landlord held him to his lease by telling him a story: Two little frogs fell into a churn full of cream. One swam around, got tired and decided he might as well drown. The other kept on swimming until he felt an island forming under him -an island of butter formed by his paddling. "Now," said the landlord, "do you want to be the little frog that gave up easily or will you be the one to keep on paddling and finally win out?" Adrian thought he would paddle...
Illuminating was the terse bread-&-butter note which Churchill sent to Host Stalin on leaving Moscow: "I take the opportunity to thank you for your friendly attitude and hospitality. I am highly satisfied that I have visited Moscow. . . . I am sure that our contact will be useful for the common cause. Please convey my regards to Mr. Molotov...
...camouflaged tent at the headquarters of the 13th Corps, Churchill lunched on prawns mayonnaise, ham and tongue, rolls, butter and cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...
This novel about Fascist Italy is by no means a perfect book, but in some respects it may be a great one. It will mean little to those who use politics to butter their daily bread and not much to those for whom politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...