Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stirs & Stripes. In Lakeland, Fla., ten prisoners at the city stockade were put on a three-day diet of bread and water after staging a sit-down strike and refusing "to work in stripes like criminals...
...auto industry, the big sales of compacts represent success at a price. They are taking sales away from some automakers' bread-and-butter lines; e.g., Chrysler's Valiant is outselling the Plymouth. At Ford, the runaway success of the Falcon is such that Ford has stopped releasing sales figures for standard Fords (the new Comet is also outselling its sister Mercury...
...Bread & Butter Issue. With all their problems oldsters can vote (and now make up 20% of the electorate). So can the increasing numbers of budget-pressed young adults who, busy raising large families, feel the extra burden of carrying the heavy medical expenses of elderly parents and relatives. Result: the age-old problem of old age has become a red-hot 1960 election issue...
...peaceful, prosperous election year the Democrats were groping for a bread-and-butter issue, and suddenly they awakened to the Forand bill uproar just about the time that the House Ways & Means Committee, controlled by Democrats, was killing it off. Every one of the front-running Democratic presidential hopefuls endorsed the Forand bill or a close variation. Hubert Humphrey and Jack Kennedy introduced bills of their own that approximate Forand's but cut the surgical benefits...
...grinding poverty they worked hard physically, grew up lean and tough on a Spartan diet packed with starches-black bread (using 85% of the wheat grain), white and sweet potatoes, rice-as well as peppers, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, oranges, sesame seeds and abundant raw carrots. A minimum of food was cooked...