Word: bread
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Still, one of the most memorable moments of the trip for Carter did not take place during the formal talks on San Giorgio Maggiore island but during a simple breakfast of bread, milk and cheese that he ate one morning with a dozen Benedictine monks. Carter was the only one of the seven leaders to accept the monks' invitation to share a meal at their 16th century monastery. Relating the experience afterward to a rather incredulous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Carter said that the monks had offered a special prayer...
...more this year that does not involve lifting a racquet. He has lent his name to almost 60 products. Among them: tennis shoes, training devices, racquet-stringing machines, instructional video and audio cassettes, balls, ball machines and headbands. Other firms line Borg's pockets for promoting breakfast cereal, bread, soft drinks, leisure shoes and clothes, sunglasses, tanning lotion, key rings, pencils, erasers, posters, calendars, confections (a Borg candy bar is sold in Europe), blue jeans, jewelry, glucose tablets, men's cologne, liquor (in Brazil) and a Bjorn Borg doll. One year he posed with two Swedish sewing machines...
...help, stealing provisions and supplies ordered for the inmates and selling them in black markets throughout Arkansas and as far away as Chicago. Those who managed the kitchen took bribes as payment for sand-wiches. Poorer prisoners made do with a spoonful of rice a day, plus soybeans, corn bread and water. The food was rancid and contaminated by weevils...
Cabbage, potatoes, macaroni, kasha (cooked buckwheat), bread, fish, tea and a bit of meat normally make up the draftees' diet. On special holidays, fruit and jam are added. The troops down their fare quickly. Reason: The last to finish must clean the mess-hall table. Soviet draftees have little chance for female contact. While they can leave base one day each month, many do not do so, because the nearest village is often beyond walking distance. Longer furloughs are granted only as a special favor or for emergency reasons. On rare occasions, a divisional command may organize "social evenings...
...blessing in a deep, resounding voice and offers a few words of instruction. The candidates stride forward to receive their diplomas and then bend to kiss the Patriarch's hand. Afterward, new graduates, friends, proud families and church dignitaries, assembled from all over the U.S.S.R., dine on bread, cheese, sausages and potatoes...