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Word: ambohijatovo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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Usage:

...townspeople awoke to see a huge Cross of Lorraine painted in kaolin* on the broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADAGASCAR: Enfants de la Patrie . . . | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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