Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blame? The 46 million tons of bread grains delivered to the state in 1959, he acknowledged, was down 2,000,000 tons from the average achieved in the first four years after the opening up of his widely touted eastern virgin lands. It was down a full 20% from the 1958 crop. Drought, explained Khrushchev, had cut deliveries in many areas of European Russia. But more than drought was to blame for the performance in the Asian virgin-lands Republic of Kazakhstan, which only the year before had filled Khrushchev's heart with gratitude by producing more than...
...brightness and joy, bowls fashioned out of crystal candy to symbolize the sweetness of marriage. But the most significant of the objects before the 40-year-old Shahanshah of Iran and his third bride, Farah Diba, 21, was the Symbol of Plenty, a ten-foot-long loaf of plain bread on which were written the words: "May Allah give you a male heir...