Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Julia de Saegher, child of Courtrai in 1918, do you remember how blessed you made the Sundays of its prisoners within the white-washed walls of the gendarmerie, by your precious, timid visits and generous gifts of bread...
...stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious...
Depression took John Raklios back to shirtsleeves. Bankruptcy cut his chain to 13 restaurants, and more bad business put them on the block to be bought by Thompson's. Last year John Raklios, 58 and ailing, peddled bread at $25-30 a week for White Baking Co. Chicago newspapers reviewed his rise and fall last August when he was jailed for two days for a $2,000 debt under Illinois' antique debtors...
...Bread & Brandy. In Eire, members of the I. R. A. received instructions to go to Communion before May 24, whereupon the authorities of North Ireland got busy on a thorough Ulster roundup of suspects. They know that no Catholic Irishman will risk his life without first taking Communion bread...
...generals, it has given gas masks to soldiers and civilians. In other ways it has added much to a soldier's comfort. It keeps him dry with waterproof clothes, lightens his pack with aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...