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...priest at the altar lifts a loaf of pita bread and recites the familiar words of consecration: "Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you... do this in memory of me." Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the sanctuary, a second priest lifts an identical loaf and intones: "Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance...
...strike threat, Kama's government offered two compromise plans: a gradual move toward a five-day work week by 1985, or a work week consisting of five 8½-hour days. But Solidarity's national leadership, egged on by restive local chapters, rejected the half-loaf and unilaterally declared all Saturdays work-free. According to Solidarity officers, up to 85% of Poland's workers stayed at home on Jan. 10. In the face of these mounting pressures-and threats of a possible general strike-Warsaw has agreed to hold talks this week to seek...
Most agricultural experts agree with her. The embargo declared by President Carter on Jan. 4, 1980, in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan has yet to cost the Soviet peasant his beloved loaf of black bread or cause serious disruptions in the Soviet economy. Yet the experts add that the limit on farm sales to Moscow may still have a long-term impact on the development of Soviet agriculture, especially on meat production...
...Sophie Steurer then, 25 years old, one of eleven children born to a German hatter and his wife. They had lived comfortably in Ebingen, about 40 miles south of Stuttgart. But the inflation and unemployment that ravaged Germany in the 1920s changed all that. By 1923 a loaf of bread cost up to 3 million marks. Sophie could find work only half a day a week -sewing men's shirts. Her friends sought jobs in The Netherlands and Spain. "But for me," Sophie recalls, "America was the thing." She was fortunate in having a sponsor: an uncle...
...food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched in astonishing ways, and Spear prescribes 29 fish soups and stews that elongate budgets while widening nostrils. For the more extravagant, two of her finny finest: shrimp with melon in kirsch, and the New Orleans oyster loaf known as la Médiatrice, which errant husbands used to bring home to placate spouses after a night on the town...