Word: cardamoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look at Their flag!" Sporting jasmine garlands and his inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India...