Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with the ground rules for a possible negotiation, they were cheered by picketing workers as a significant gesture of recognition. Meanwhile, in a letter to national church authorities, Poland's own Pope John Paul II expressed his concern over what he called his country's "arduous struggle for daily bread and social justice." Poland's Communist government was thus confronted with its most serious threat since the food-price riots that toppled Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...they had done ten years ago, and again in 1976, the rebellious Polish workers were demanding higher pay and lower food prices. But this time, the strikers went far beyond those bread-and-butter issues by insisting on a number of sweeping political reforms. Among them: free labor unions that would have the legal right to strike, the abolition of censorship, and freedom for all political prisoners. In effect, they were asking for the unthinkable: that the Communist Party in a Communist state give up its monopoly of power...
Western palates have long feasted on such Chinese dishes as Peking duck and dim sum. Now, at last, the Chinese will be able to sample such sometimes questionable Western delicacies as white bread, doughnuts and perhaps eventually shortcake. The People's Republic of China next summer will open an American-style demonstration bakery in Peking. The goal: to give the Chinese a quick Western alternative to time-consuming products like boiled rice and hand-shaped noodles...
Though introducing the Chinese to sliced bread might not improve the quality of China's cuisine, it is expected to help U.S. grain sales. Chinese imports of U.S. wheat, which totaled just 300,000 tons three years ago, could top 5 million tons this year. And if nearly 1 billion Chinese take a liking to hamburger buns or Danish, wheat exports could soar. The only problem may be that many people will complain that they are hungry again an hour after eating a jelly doughnut...
...later, he will succeed-to the great delight of the audience. The Resurrection of Jesus is the supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible." Through love, the clown, like Jesus, can transform the ordinary into the sacred. At the Last Supper, ordinary bread and cheap table wine became eternal symbols of Jesus' love and sacrifice. At Pentecost, a group of illiterate fishermen were turned into inspired preachers who could speak to every man present in his own language. "Isn't that Christ's message," asks Shaffer, "that even ordinary people...