Word: crustier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shortcakes" for dessert, breads that go from "Ryvita" health bread to the standard "National Loaf" sandwich bread that is a staple of Britain's diet. Americans might find Weston's most popular bread too off-white and flabby for their taste, but Weston also makes a whiter, crustier loaf, which sells for a few cents more...
...spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their Mau Mau sympathies antagonized many of the crustier of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers. The settlers complained to Whitehall that the military were not being ruthless enough. Soldiers in turn blamed settlers for mistreating the loyal Africans, thereby providing the Mau Mau with a supply of recruits...