Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece amplifier is the most remarkable achievement so far in miniaturization, which has steadily reduced the size of electronic apparatus, until computers and other intricate instruments that formerly filled whole rooms are fitted into boxes no bigger than loaves of bread...
...only wins the bread but brings it home. Even if there is a store near by, his wife firmly believes that food brought from town is better and fresher. Every night after work the "dacha husband" (as Chekhov called him) goes shopping, list in hand, and patiently queueing. Then, laden like a pack mule, he must wedge his way into a crowded train. His worst problem: kerosene, still the main cooking fuel in outlying places. The railroad bars it as dangerous, and if the dacha husband is caught carrying it, he will be put off the train and fined...
...found that there is a tremendous joy in giving. It is a very important part of the joy of living." Brooklyn-born Bill Black had no such joys when he worked his way through Columbia by loading potatoes in a waterfront market. He could barely afford nickel meals of bread pudding. But after graduation (1920), he took to selling nuts in a cubbyhole Times Square shop, soon had 18 stores. When the Depression killed nut sales, Black shrewdly converted the stores to lunch bars, featuring coffee and nutted-cheese sandwiches. Today his 28 New York-area restaurants serve...
...Walkathon. Would-be philanthropic heavens too often become pluperfect hells. Just into his teens, the hero in The Good Light still has partial vision, but the first thing that assails him at the Blind Institute is the smell - paint, sour beer, and wet floor mops. The food is stale bread, dry cheese and gruel that the sightless inmates wolf down like animals. When the boy says good morning to his schoolmates, no one turns a head. He has entered a world in which nothing exists until it is touched...
...craft manned by four cowled monks and a coast guardsman. When St. Angus finally got a line to them, the crew hauled up a tea chest of staples. It was no ham or roast goose Christmas dinner, for the monks who brought it were austere Trappists, who eat only bread, butter, cheese and fruit, but there were some cans of beer (kept for monastery guests), for St. Angus...