Word: cassia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HEINRICH PERLICH Cassia...
...cloudy, hot morning last week in Leopoldville, capital of the vast Belgian Congo (about four times the size of Texas and 77 times larger than Belgium itself), long lines of natives stood quietly in the dusty streets. Across town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up. Belgian gradualism was making another cautious move forward, permitting the first elections-for either whites or blacks-to be held in Belgium's fabulously rich (cobalt, uranium, copper, gold) and only colony...
...east side, in a place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense in cassia wood ... In the pit near by, towards the north, near the grave, in a hole opening to the north, there is a copy of this book with explanations, measurements and all details...
...tripled its population in the past six years. Its 20,000 whites live apart in a suburb that seems far too big for them. There are broad, empty boulevards and a scattering of modern skyscrapers, but the buildings seem isolated amid the mango palms and yellow-flowered cassia trees where the red-tailed parrots roost. Many streets are unpaved and unlighted; in heavy rain they turn to quagmires. Leo's whites are mostly officials or highly trained business executives-managers, engineers, sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty of money to spend...
...only two documented instances of cakes that sank-probably because the air bubbles had been squeezed out during storage.) In church one day, Harley Procter, a son of the founder, found a name for the new product in Psalms: "All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad...