Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...nevertheless asserts the government's right to "protect state and economic secrets." But more important was the question of whether the government would, or could, deliver on the spirit of the agreement. Even with the best of intentions, how could the regime, already economically strapped, deliver on its bread-and-butter promises? Would Warsaw really permit independent labor organizations to rival the party-controlled unions prescribed by Leninist dogma? If so, would Moscow tolerate such a challenge to the Communist Party's monopoly of power? Kania was reassuring in a speech before the Central Committee Friday night. Said...
...workers of Gdansk have taken possession of their own city, in defiance of everything the world knows as Communism. Bakeries, though they continued operating to keep bread on the tables, flew the flag out of solidarity. A taxi driver said that although supplies were low, people supported the strike: "Even when there is no strike, there's little in the shops. They must not let it fail...
...going into restaurants alone." Jean-Luc's rolls-horreur!-are dipped in chocolate or flavored with coffee or stuffed with bananas, Roquefort cheese, mushrooms and a dozen or so other fillings. They are delivered frozen to the stores, and thus come from the oven as mushy as supermarket bread. Even so, the Croissanteries sell 50,000 rolls a day, plus Seines of soft drinks and coffee...
...faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
...fact be eaten within hours of decease. They should be "hung" for at least three days to bring out their uniquely gamy flavor. At London's incomparable Connaught Hotel dining room, they are served in classic fashion: roasted but bloody, in their own juice, with paté, bread sauce or gravy and potato crisps, preferably accompanied by a light claret "to tone them down a bit," as Connaught Headwaiter Joseph O'Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon and served with currant jelly, gravy, browned potatoes and mushrooms.) A grouse luncheon at the Connaught...