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Word: broadleaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according to the children, taste much too bitter. They dip small pieces of bread into the unpalatable grass soup, eating only enough to stop their gnawing hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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