Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polenta (corn meal). A little after 10, 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...
...Washington and in the capitals of Europe, the experts and the managers translated the three words into specific needs, and sent hurry-up calls for more food. In the U.S., where food was richer and more plentiful than before the war, where everything from elephants to lolly-pops could be bought in the black market, the people began to awaken-a little. Housewives, seeing their grocers' shelves still filled to overflowing, began to ask: "What...
...remarkably close last week as an old woman stood in Bukowsko's ashes and said, "Everything's boined." She, like a lot of other people in Polish Galicia, had lived for years in the U.S., had come home before the war not because Galicia was better or richer, but because she was born there...
...Peru's Amazonian fields may be even richer than million-barrel-a-day Venezuela...
Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...