Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conquered capital was divided like a pie into four slices (see map). The Americans occupied about a quarter, mostly residential. The British held another quarter, partly residential, partly industrial. The French occupied only one borough, a thin wedge between the British and Russians. The Red Army slice was biggest-almost half the city, including its business heart. As far as the Elbe River, the Russians controlled all outlying regions through which the Allied supply routes...
Meat-hungry U.S. citizens were served a thin slice of good news last week. But before they could chew it well, bad news ruined the taste. The OPA would hopefully try to distribute more evenly what limited meat supplies there are. Meanwhile, during July, August and September, the U.S. would halt all meat shipments abroad for Lend-Lease and relief...
...answer horrified the neighbors, soon piqued the curiosity of all London. Nearly 200 years later it attracted the attention of Lillian de la Torre, a student of 18th-Century English history. The result of Student De la Torre's gleanings in many libraries is a fascinating slice of picaresque history...
Gloria Vanderbilt Stolcowslci, filling out papers for her visit south of the border with Husband Leopold Stokowski, listed her occupation as housewife. In Los Angeles, the Bank of America turned over to Gloria's just-discarded first husband, Pasquale di Cicco, a $200,000 slice of her $4,500,000 inheritance (Pat's first wife, the late, blond comedienne Thelma Todd, bequeathed...
...unnecessary. The soup course was dispensed with, for lack of ingredients. The salad was absent, black-market prices prohibiting. The main course, occupying a pitifully small central part of the table, consisted of a medium-sized plateful of home-fried potatoes (perhaps five potatoes in all), a two-inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo in the black market...