Word: suche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Butter, No Milk. In such predominantly Catholic regions as Normandy, Brittany and La Vendée, children who attend public schools and their parents are occasionally denied the sacraments. In one Vendée town the curé himself told his congregation: "You have a good laïque...
In it was a provision stipulating state control of any school accepting state support, another requiring such schools to open their doors to all pupils, no matter what their "origin, belief or opinion." The church was stunned. At week's end, quailing at the prospect of a debate packed...
Take the candy trade. A janitress at a food store studied the tastes of sweet-toothed small fry, concluded that what they liked most were toy-shaped confections. She went home, out of sugared batter molded a swan with raisin eyes, baked it, and promptly sold it to a schoolboy...
A far more important source of private income comes from refurbishing such shoddily mass-produced essentials as clothes, shoes and furniture. One of the wealthiest men in Moscow is an expert cobbler who specializes in fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford...
But the British press was under no such restraint. Said the Daily Mirror: "Mr. Swart is the man who: FLOURISHED a whip to show how he himself would deal with restless Africans. DESCRIBED a wedding photograph of a white girl and an African as disgusting. SAID "when we defend White...