Word: pasta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital care, had not heard from the pensions investigator who had finally arrived to look into his case. Bruno was as bare as ever, and the baby, Enzo, was getting by with a cotton singlet. All of them shared a diet which Lucia described as 'a little pasta, a little greens...
...mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
...shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things, for which the U.S. asked neither thanks nor service, be enough to persuade the Italian people to vote...
...when the frost was off the ground, Innocenzo started to work; he did not stop until dusk, when there was another meal of polenta, minestrone and watered wine. In the spring and summer, when the work was harder, there would be richer food: bread soaked in olive oil, sardines, pasta, greens, cheese and wine...
Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's little Mayor, broadcast praise for his wife's "OPA pasta faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...