Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well. On the dark day in 1789 when a mob of hungry women marched twelve miles through the mud to Versailles to haul King Louis XVI off to his doom, their war cry was "Bread! Bread!" and their fury was fed by Marie Antoinette's fateful "Let them eat cake." Last week, to the dismay of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet and his government, the same angry cry for bread reverberated through France...
...press. A day after the beginning of the Paris strike, the president of the Bakers Syndicate called a meeting of his colleagues and proposed that they all turn out a small amount of bread for distribution by the police. From the audience a baker snouted back, "Let 'em eat biscotte." By week's end, however, the bakers cooled down and their ovens began heating up again. Calling off the strike in Paris, the Bakers Syndicate explained: "We think that the Parisian population, which perhaps can endure a temporary annoyance, should not suffer a persistent lack of bread...
Last week in Milan's 13th century Church of San Marco a dedicated Milanese restorer, pretty Pinin Brambilla, 31, was finishing the task of uncovering an unsuspected fresco that tor its brilliant, fresh colors and bold, naturalistic drawing of the crucified Christ might well make even Critic Berenson eat his words...
...should be cut out within five weeks, and the baby put on three meals a day. He also says that the baby should be weaned (from either bottle or breast feeding) to the spoon at seven months, and that by ten or twelve months he should be able to "eat almost entirely from the table with the rest of the family...
Formosa gave the Half Safe a fine welcome: fireworks, a military escort and free watermelon at every corner. "It's true of islands everywhere," says Carlin. "Only on islands do they realize fully you've arrived by sea." But Okinawa almost made him eat his words. The Half Safe upset the gum-chewing rhythm of that Americanized base. "We were in the seamen's club before someone noticed I wasn't a jet pilot." Then a security officer accidentally found them. "Say, you guys just arrived? I don't want to act suspicious...