bread-line

Half of the afternoon I had stood in the bread-line; and after dark I returned home, tired and miserable, carrying a quart of rice and a slice of bacon.

THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010

Bowery lodging-houses and ate scrapple in East-Side feeding-dens, and, on more than one occasion, stood in the bread-line at midnight and pondered whether or not I should faint before I fed.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

May 1992 -- Shells and Death CampsSerb shells kill at least 20 civilians in the so-called bread-line massacre in Sarajevo.

For Shame 2008

Such bread-line unrest will likely affect local council elections in April, with the hard-line Muslim Brotherhood poised to benefit, says Steven A. Cook, Egypt expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

NATO Future: The Wimps And The Warriors 2008

Don't they have a bread-line to stand in or something?

A challenge to Czech youth 2007

Mr Williams said rural and predominantly black areas were beset by a lack of domestic services, incomes below the bread-line, unemployment, violence, a breakdown in social structures, drugs and vagrant children.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Workers must effectively demand their one-pound-a-day or else leaders in industry and commerce will go no further than piously acknowledging that you are paid starvation wages and that 80% of the African people live below the bread-line.

"MINORITY WHITE RULE AND NON-WHITES IN THE UNION" 1961

In the bread-line on Monday was Eugene J. Parney, a multi-millionaire, whose gifts to charity have been very large and who recently included

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall

Googe, unknown, unidentified as yet by three men, Father Honoré and two detectives, who from the dark archway of a sunken area farther down the street were scanning this bread-line.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

We would stand in the bread-line just like the rest of them and get our roll and coffee.

Dave Ranney Dave Ranney